Word: trading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown, Gaitskell could count on the support of the conservative trade unions, though he knows that union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed...
...first season had been in many ways a trial run; port installations were not yet in shape to make their full contribution to the integrated flow of trade. Gauging 1959 against past performance, most cities on the seaway were well pleased-no fewer than 5,861 ships had traversed the St. Lambert lock. Tolls will not be touched for three to five years, until complete trade patterns emerge...
Public-Private Image. If Eartha Kitt appears before her audiences as the feline temptress and Lena Home as the sophisticated lady with a past, Diahann is the ingenue of the trade-sweet but sexy, and eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr...
...creed: "To hold opinions, to hold them strongly and if need be to express them strongly, but to have as few prejudices as possible." Following that creed, the Economist tries to be passionately nonpartisan on parties, passionately partisan on issues. Founding Editor Wilson argued spiritedly for free trade, and his successors have pounded relentlessly against import quotas, for the convertibility of sterling, for lower tariffs and more foreign aid. In 1956 the Economist rebuked Sir Anthony Eden, then Prime Minister, for his rash invasion of the Suez; it has challenged Britain's decision to stay out of the European...
Brought up near the Amsterdam docks, Appel worked as a youth in his father's : barber shop, early decided against so niggling and polite a trade. Painting was his only care, and to pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for long stretches. The poor Belgian miners to whose grandfathers the young Van Gogh had ministered as a tortured divinity student were amazed when the ragged Appel appeared to paint them in his turn, in their turn ministered to him, sharing what they had with the hot-eyed and hungry traveler...