Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy revenue duties, e.g., on U.S. tobacco, have the same effect as protective tariffs in obstructing free trade...
...last throes of a searing election campaign, French politicians hardly noted a significant democratic victory on another front. In spite of fierce opposition from the Communist-run C.G.T., the biggest labor organization in France, the Catholic Christian Trade Union (C.F.T.C.) and the Socialists (Force Ou-vriere) signed a contract with the nationalized coal mines giving graduated pay rises based on productivity, with paid vacations to 250,000 miners. The next day 10,000 aeronautical engineering workers won a similar contract. Both agreements are modeled on the one signed more than three months ago with the nationalized Renault auto plant, France...
...stores had to give up old-fashioned ideas of high markups and open up outlying warehouses where customers could pick up goods at cut-rate prices. Even such diehard Fair Traders as W. A. Schaeffer Pen Co. and McGraw Electric's Toastmaster division either abandoned their Fair Trade principles or started backing down. And last week General Electric chopped appliance prices as much as 30% right down the line...
...enough of the kind of houses to suit its well-heeled population. With better jobs than ever before, homeowners are no longer content with their first $10,000 to $15,000 "efficiency" dwellings, now want $20,000 and $30,000 homes. As a result, 1955 saw the growth of "trade-in" housing, where builders operated like auto dealers, swapped new houses...
Bugles and a Tiger is a soldier's book, and anyone who scoffs at the soldier's trade will not appreciate its virtues. But after two World Wars and a "police action," there should be quite a few U.S. readers who will applaud the sometimes sentimental, consistently knowledgeable and colorful account of one man's devo tion to duty...