Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will presumably be a Protestant. The three leading candidates: Vice Chancellor Erhard, 62; Gerstenmaier, 52; and Finance Minister Franz Etzel, 56. Of the three, Etzel, a colorless Ruhr corporation lawyer would be most apt to follow Adenauer's tutelage in foreign affairs unquestioningly. Because Gerstenmaier is ready to trade away Germany's NATO membership if it will buy reunification from the Russians, he is less likely to get the nomination. Erhard has never concealed that in his free-trader's eyes, the Adenauer-sponsored six-nation Common Market is too limited, and last week he told...
...British prosperity in 1959 is still a near thing, maintained only by rigid economic controls, and it could be destroyed at almost any moment by a shift in international trade patterns. To the hard-pressed British taxpayer, the $4.2 billion a year spent on defense represents capital that, if the cold war ended, Britain could devote to the investment on which its economic future depends...
...Figure." The winners could not have cared less about their Trendex. The real payoff was at the box office, and the scramble for the little statuettes was long and rough. Since most of the Academy's 2,087 voters are in Hollywood, the trade papers were barraged with publicity as carefully aimed as that in any congressional race. Actor David Niven, clearly a red-hot contender, paid for some $1,500 worth of personal ads for himself. His producers, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. shelled out even more. "We evaluate the opposition," explained one film flack, "and figure...
...that the public could still buy the same goods at many other San Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit was a "purely private quarrel." Flatly rejecting the argument, the Supreme Court said the conspiracy against Klor's was a full-fledged illegal restraint of trade. "As such, it is not to be tolerated merely because the victim is just one merchant whose business is so small that his destruction makes little difference to the economy. Monopoly can as surely thrive by the elimination of such small businessmen, one at a time...
...Trade-Ins. The key to Ayer's success is the way he sells. He does not merely dump airplanes for a price, but first makes sure that they can be used and comfortably paid for. For small lines, which do not always know what is best for them, he sends in men to analyze routes, cargo business and profits. Since his credit is better than that of many small lines, and "he can pay off his big purchases as he receives payments for his sales, he can give airlines credit terms that many would not get themselves. Equally important...