Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directions, hopefully on the part of Nehru, warily on the part of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (The final communiqué artfully alloyed both the hope and the wariness.) They agreed on wishing that the Formosa situation may not get out of hand. The Asian Commonwealth members wanted more trade with Communist China, and wanted the Reds in the U.N.; others for the present held back. Eden wanted the Commonwealth to share some of the responsibility for the bases that link it together, and got nowhere. He also explained his troubles with Greece over Cyprus-and got unexpected and able...
MOSCOW FAIR FOR U.S. industry and agriculture next summer is latest Soviet overture to boost East-West trade. Reds want American businessmen to display industrial machines, agricultural products, fashions and fabrics. Reds say they will also set aside $15 million to buy goods of "outstanding quality" right off display stands...
Last week the Federal Maritime Board approved the "trade-out and build" scheme "in principle," as it has with other shipowners. It was now up to Onassis' to take the next steps and complete the deal. He had 90 days to prove ability to finance the colossal plan and show evidence that he had signed binding construction contracts...
January's in June. Cried one anguished woman: "Never in season can one find the clothes one needs. Bathing suits in July -never! Winter cocktail clothes after Christmas-never! You lose valuable trade because you do not cater to people when they need things." For this, manufacturers last week blamed the department stores: "The store buyer doesn't think ahead. If it's a cold spring, she gets panicky, concentrates on getting rid of what she had, and won't reorder fresh stock early." The stores blamed manufacturers: "Try to reorder anything in May. The manufacturers...
Long acknowledged as a master craftsman in an exacting trade, Bates writes with an English sense of place and social pattern; his prose often carries the gleam of England's pale sunlight. The title story is a neatly cut account of murder, told obliquely and in retrospect. A farmer kills the man he suspects of seducing his bride. Returning home after serving his sentence, the farmer finds his daughter now almost the same age his wife had been when he killed her lover. Slowly, and by indirection, the reader becomes aware that the daughter, too, could be seduced...