Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropped out of school when I was going to Boston Trade, and I had been training at the time as an acrobat down at the gym, at the BYNCU on Boylston St. I was going to be a mechanic, I was studying automotive engineering over there at Boston Trade and I was going to go to Went-worth and finish up over there. But I was down at the gym one day working out down there, I worked after school at a garage for a while, and I didn't think too much of it.... Just something I wanted...
...paper of course encountered a lot of difficulty, such as the Catholic Church. They thought it was a pretty horrible newspaper. They sent their agents around to tell the people in the various stores in the neighborhoods where they lived that they wouldn't trade there unless they took the papers out. I lost a lot of sales that...
...Cushion. Unless some such combination of circumstances brings a sharp improvement in its trade surplus, the U.S. will face a difficult dilemma. Many economists reason that the nation has moved into a new era, in which its industrial efficiency no longer provides a cushion against lower wage rates abroad. Yet if the U.S. substantially reduces the comparatively free access other countries enjoy to the world's largest market, it risks a prosperity-wrecking shrinkage in world trade. If the U.S. cooled its heated domestic economy enough to bring prices in line with those of foreign goods, the resulting unemployment would...
...tariffs or import quotas on everything from shoes to glass, from steel to electronic components. Most such efforts have been rebuffed, but last month President Johnson signed a bill that more than tripled the import duty on various blends of woolens. Italy, which stands to lose $15 million in trade, is considering retaliation against U.S. exports. Other countries, of course, can be expected to do the same if tariffs on their exports to the U.S. are raised...
Coogan's Bluff is what the trade used to call a B picture, but Siegel is not bothered by such distinctions. "I make Tom, Dick and Harry movies," he says. "I'm not interested in those 10,000 Tom, Dick and Harry spectaculars where everything seems to get lost in the shuffle." It is not very likely that Siegel will ever get a spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion...