Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...keep pace, the rival Outer Seven dominated by Britain cut tariffs between themselves by 20%, the first practical step to be taken since the Seven group was organized last May. The impact on trade patterns was almost instantly apparent. Some British automobiles will sell for $50 less in Denmark; West German chemicals can now undersell their British competition in The Netherlands but can be undersold in turn in Sweden. The split between the Common Market's Six and the Outer Seven was widening...
Command Decision. Some such showdown has been in the making ever since Castro signed an agreement with the visiting Soviet trader, Anastas Mikoyan, last February to sell Russia 5,000,000 tons of sugar and buy 10 million bbl. of Russian oil (half a normal year's needs) in return. Castro's government asked the refineries to process the Russian crude. They consulted and refused. For a time, the Cubans did not press further. But three weeks ago, a Cuban economic mission traveled to Moscow and signed an agreement to buy additional Soviet oil at a price that...
...most other designers, he does not bother with small preliminary sketches, but attacks the work directly. "Like a surgeon approaching a delicate brain operation," says he, "I have it all in mind." It takes a skilled weaver about a month to produce one square yard of tapestry, which may sell for as much as $400-or, in Lurçat's case...
...Miami the Television and Electronics Service Association, representing more than 100 owners, dealers and distributors, voted not to buy, sell or use Japanese products. Miami's East Coast Dry Goods Co. canceled $250,000 worth of orders from Japan; a Miami firm sent back 800 Japanese radios in stock. Ohio's Independent Products Corp. canceled an order for 1,700 Japanese bicycles, and Oklahoma City's Bentley Wholesale Co. for 20,000 yards of Japanese carpet. In Yokohama the rubbermaking firm of Hodogaya laid off 288 of its 420 workers after 13 U.S. firms canceled orders...
...time when many U.S. rivals are concerned at the inroads of cheaper Japanese goods. Yokohama Chamber of Commerce President Shogo Tanaka sent a letter of apology to the Chambers of Commerce of 30 U.S. cities for "the mob demonstrations fanned by a leftist minority." Japanese toymakers, who sell $50 million worth of toys to the U.S. each year, wrote directly to President Eisenhower expressing "heartfelt regret and shame" and explaining that 10,000 toymakers had planned to line his airport route to greet...