Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the delegates-by-the-sea heard A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany second the sentiment: "I like businesslike methods, but that is the extent to which I want the word 'business' applied to a trade union." The one-two attack foreshadowed a meeting next month in Washington, where Meany, Dubinsky and other members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council will gather to take a hard look at the Teamsters' conduct...
...said, recognizing "they cannot possibly win by military action," are now falling back on the hope that "international opinion or action by foreign countries" will impose a solution on France. He denied a visa to the A.F.L.C.I.O. cloak-and-daggering European representative. Irving Brown. Said Lacoste: "Under pretext of trade unionism. Brown conducts adventurous activity with doubtful personages, showing the greatest contempt for the interests and position of France in Algeria." To keep a balance of sorts, he simultaneously ordered the expulsion of two of the more fanatic French colon leaders. (The two promptly announced: "It is the greatest honor...
...Germans seem to care about the posture West Germany thus presents to its allies. Most politicians are interested only in next year's elections. Businessmen want to hedge against a possible Western recession by opening up trade with the East. Everyone wants big tax reductions. What does seem essential is that production should continue its phenomenal rise, steel output its steady climb (last year it passed Britain's), exports their swift increase, so that there can be more goods in the stores, more wages in the pay envelopes, more automobiles on the autobahnen (where there are nearly three...
Burma was learning the hard way about barter deals with the Communists. Caught with a huge rice surplus and unable to sell enough of it elsewhere (the U.S. is unloading a surplus of its own). Burma sent trade delegates to Iron Curtain countries to barter. They were eager amateurs who knew little about the fine points of trade, could not even speak Russian, and had to settle for whatever exchange goods they could get. Iron Curtain countries had plenty of cement to offer; cement, the delegates figured, would surely come in handy for Burma's projected construction program...
...Chicago Board of Trade, the star performer for weeks has been the versatile soybean, the eighth most valuable U.S. farm crop. Since the first of the year, Europe's freeze, which ruined the olive-oil crop, has sent the oily soy soaring nearly $1 a bushel to the season's high of $3.42 per bushel. While other farm commodities did poorly, the soy did nip-ups for happy speculators: exports from Oct. 1 to March 31 rose nearly 1,000%, compared with the same period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate...