Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EXPORTS will rise from last year's estimated $16.2 billion to more than $17 billion, while imports will go from $12.9 billion to $13.8 billion in 1959, predicts National Foreign Trade Council. One big reason for export gain: convertibility of Europe's currencies...
...White House that a big Government contract would go to Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. Few outside Philadelphia paid much heed to the matter then. But last week, when the contract was formally announced, an international storm erupted over the order and the Administration's freer-trade policies...
...Britain's English Electric Co.. Ltd. Hearing the news, the British Foreign Office loudly protested, complained that it had obviously been "a waste of time" for English Electric to bid on the job in the first place. The British press joined in with an attack on U.S. trade policies...
...White House why the Tennessee Valley Authority last November awarded a $2,637,000 contract for electric generators to Switzerland's Brown Boveri instead of to the low domestic bidder, suburban Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Louisiana Democrat T. Hale Boggs, chairman of the House reciprocal-trade-agreements subcommittee, promised a thorough investigation of the B.L.H. award. Asked Boggs: "Does this mean that we invoke the national-defense clause when an industry at home is having some difficulties, to bail 'em out?" But Pennsylvania's Scott stuck to his guns: "I got the contract...
Grace Notes. Betjeman both likes and deplores the sad, cramped lives of city suburbs. His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he detests, but he has managed some grace notes. His Berkshire country home is an old rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every...