Word: tradesmen
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Exports last year gained 7½% (to a record $5.8 billion), and by holding down imports, Canada enjoyed its first merchandise trade surplus since 1956. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees, who likes to wear gold cufflinks initialed G.O.Y.B.S.A.S. (meaning "Get Off Your Back Side And Sell"), sent his tradesmen to cultivate markets wherever they could find them. Canadian sales to Eastern Europe are up 90%, to Latin America 36%, to Asia a muscular 61% (to $312 million). Biggest Asian customer is famine-struck Red China, which has engaged to buy $425.6 million worth of Canadian grain over the next...
...public relations director. In the interests of modern efficiency, North Carolina's Belmont Abbey has forsworn some customary monastic pursuits: 15 years ago, all of Belmont's cooking and shoemaking was done by monks; now they have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar...
Pritchett is a first-rate critic of literature (London's New Statesman) who can also write it, usually in a minor key. The people he writes of are, for the most part, determinedly average-tradesmen, housewives, laborers, accountants. But Pritchett has a gift for spotting the seeds of madness that threaten to sprout in the most prosaic minds. And he writes of his characters' inner cataclysms and defeats in a tone as dry and controlled as the featureless faces they present to the world...
...about 12½ million now), the increasing threat of automation, and long-term unemployment in organized industries, A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions have come to ignore their no-raiding pledges, compete bitterly with one another for membership. A major new "grey area" of conflict: factory maintenance. Although building tradesmen have always held a monopoly on industrial construction, C.I.O.-formed unions have traditionally carried out essential maintenance. Recently, craft locals have bid for maintenance contracts by offering to do the job at lower wages and with no fringe benefits...
...Daily Telegraph, a listless, conservative has been of 84,000 circulation when Publisher Sir William Ewert Berry took it over in 1928, has surged to success on that very formula. By dropping the price of the paper to a penny, Berry put it within reach of Britain's tradesmen, tailored its contents to the middle class's conservative but aspiring tastes. Under Berry, the first Viscount Camrose, the Telegraph dispensed both news and editorial opinion with such an even hand that a critic once complained that the paper "ignores nothing-and explains nothing...