Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mikoyan was not here to scout for his country. Indeed he was here for the opposite purpose. He came in the same way that Stevenson and Humphrey went to his country. He came in peace -for the purpose of promoting peaceful trade...
...industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items...
...strong sense, Mills is Rayburn's right hand. As chairman of Ways & Means, Mills is responsible not only for tax writing, but for the program that Rayburn himself deems important above all others: reciprocal trade. This requires the most sensitive sort of judgment. Last year, for instance. Mills knew that a majority of his committee was willing to vote for reciprocal trade, then about to expire, as a permanent program. But he also knew that the House as a whole would not go that far and that if he tried for too much he might get nothing...
...paid not just to guess, but to guess right.. The best of them admit that it is an uncertain art, often humbly change their judgments. But when an opinion can determine whether a painting is worth $10 or $100,000, some modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing that an emotional response may confuse their judgment, and rely on analysis of paint and photographic blowups that show telltale idiosyncracies of style. Others...
...Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling, who has often brooded about the problems of money and success in the business world, broods about the problems of money and success in the writing trade. With Art Carney, Katharine Bard, Jack Klugman, Bonita Granville...