Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even a friend-and you deny it, they just smile at you." Adds W. M. Turner, a dealer in Selma, Ala.: "The criticism of the whites-and I'm sur prised at some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting its car windows with stickers, reading: "Built in the South by Mid-Southerners." One result: the slogan led to such gutter parodies as: "Built...
...Calmly washing her hands after making a fresh batch was the chatelaine, grey-haired, motherly Mme. Kalyopi Kalo-gridi, a Greek woman whose title "Queen of the Smugglers" had been well earned in two criminal convictions and the bet ter part of a lifetime spent in the illicit drug trade. Kalyopi's Teheran plant was capable of turning out each week up to 110 Ibs. of deadly dope worth nearly $500,000 on the wholesale market. Disguised as gift packages, some 90% of Kalyopi's product was shipped...
Canada, a nation that has long prided itself on its devotion to free trade and free enterprise, swung abruptly toward the opposite extreme last week. Without warning, the government proposed a sharp 20% tax on the advertising revenues of Canadian editions of foreign, i.e., U.S., magazines.* In his budget speech announcing the levy. Finance Minister Walter Harris made it clear that the tax was not intended to produce revenue, but was designed to cripple or halt the U.S.-owned publications, and thus force mere Canadians to advertise in and read Canadian magazines...
...January, 1950) but he also was absent and unrecorded on Truman's Point Four Program. Eisenhower strongly favors drastic revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, yet Nixon was one of the Senator's whose vote helped override Truman's veto. Eisenhower strongly favors a liberal, long-term Reciprocal Trade Program, yet Nixon in 1948 voed against a three extension of the trade program...
While this voting record may be only a prelude to the "new" Nixon, one who now supports the United Nations, economic aid, and a liberal trade program, his latest statement on segregation shows that his sense of political expedieney does not always lead him to principles which Eisenhower has supported. After Nixon had dragged the Supreme Court into politics by praising a "great, Republican Chief Justice" for the segregation decision, Eisenhower himself had to repudiate the Vice-President and show that this issue, above all others, must be kept as far from politics as possible. Clearly, Nixon lacks the qualities...