Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because it would give him more stature when traveling abroad. It would also make it easier for him to visit non-Communist countries. He has gradually moved Rumania away from Moscow's orbit and toward closer ties with the West, and last week publicly criticized Russia for hampering trade relations in retaliation for Rumania's independent stance...
...flabby large bowel. The remedy in most of these cases, said Dr. Danhof, is bethanechol chloride, sold as Myocholine and Urecholine, to improve the bowel's muscle tone. In the overactive bowel, commonly associated with nervous conditions, frothing or foaming may occur. A useful remedy: dimethylpolysiloxane with pepsin (trade name: Phazyme), which both improves digestion and combats gas formation. Some patients need enzyme medication to ensure more thorough digestion, while others should have anticholinergic drugs (like those commonly prescribed for ulcer) to slow down muscular activity in the intestines...
During the past decade, while British department stores share of retail trade was shrinking, John Lewis' sales rocketed 130%, to $154 million in 1966. Sales are up another 7% and profits up 40% in the first half of this year. In household goods and dress materials no British store can match the John Lewis record for sales per square foot of space. An unusual trading policy and an even rarer company structure, in which all 17,000 employees are "partners" sharing in profits, have paid off handsomely...
...months, a Federal Trade Commission smoking machine has been puffing manfully on 59 different types and sizes of cigarettes representing 23 different brand names. Results of the tests last week produced the first Government-established levels of cigarette tar and nicotine content...
...items paid for in foreign cash or checks and headed out of the country, the system is unique in Europe, has spawned thriving sales of everything from cheap trinkets to Citroëns, is a major underpinning of Parisian haute couture. Now the government is moving to cool the trade with new rules that went into effect last week, tangling both tradesmen and tourists in customs red tape...