Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journalist" Vadim Lestov-actually, an NKVD agent-"to put forth his opinions" on how the Kremlin could whip Castro into line. In a secret report to Lestov, which ended up in Raúl's hands, Escalante criticized the government and warned that Fidel was planning to expand trade ties with France, thereby lessening Russian leverage...
Fiancées ,. & Finances. Inevitably, some businessmen have been burned. Rose Jewelers, a twelve-store Midwestern chain that does a brisk credit trade among teenagers, finds that purchasers of engagement rings are apt to skip out on their payments if their fiancées break up with them. In Lake Forest, Ill., Kraft's drugstore, a hangout for local college and prep students, abandoned its credit policy because of the difficulty of collecting accounts as the end of the school year neared...
This newly updated compilation of titles and statistics by Alice Payne Hackett, an editor of the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly, gives a highly useful perspective on the long-range trends beyond the weekly ups and downs, and also includes such items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber...
...moral scrutiny. From brutal start to finish, he documents the slave traders' operation as a "vast complex of international crime." Captains' letters, half-literate journals, freed slaves' memoirs-all the available primary sources are meticulously assayed, not so much to show how the slave trade operated as to try to explain...
...profit. Shipbuilders in Liverpool, French sugar planters in the West Indies, rum manufacturers in Massachusetts (there were 63 distilleries there in 1750), coffee growers in Brazil, to say nothing of owners of cotton, rice and tobacco plantations in the South-all were dependent, directly or indirectly, upon the slave trade. All their quoted comments, says the disapproving author, ring with "the eternal voice of the middleman, the levelheaded, grating speech of money...