Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof of the Frondizi policy pours in, nationalistic outcries have died. Oil imports, which caused a crippling trade deficit, dropped from $280 million in 1957 to $174 million this year, and will cease in 1961. As befits a nation ranking twelfth in the world in proven oil reserves, Argentina plans to be selling a yearly 25 million bbl. of petroleum abroad...
...title, will match pro football's best offense against the game's best defense (TIME, Nov. 30) in the play-off later this month with the Eastern Conference's champion New York Giants. ¶ Looking for more batting power, the New York Yankees staged the biggest trade of the off-season by giving up aging (37) Outfielder Hank Bauer, erratic Pitcher Don Larsen (1959 record: 6-7), fumble-thumbed Outfielder Norm Siebern, and Reserve First Baseman Marv Throneberry to the Kansas City Athletics. To the Yanks in return: rising young (25) Outfielder Roger Maris, who in early...
...public in art, 1959 was the biggest year ever in what was once considered a minor idiosyncrasy of publishing-the art book. Across the land, art lovers can choose among 500 art books published in 1959, and among prices ranging from the Cadillac to the hot-dog trade. Publishers are planning an even greater output for 1960. Few of the new crop are notably well written, and many offer lavish coverage of ground that has been covered before. But the boom is bringing art home to more Americans than ever before. Items...
...sort of Quizzard of Oz, he had also developed Quiz Kids and Stop the Music. Thoughtful, well-read Lou Cowan ran CBS with due regard for public affairs programs (Ed Murrow) and serious drama (Playhouse go), but remained strongly identified in the trade with quiz shows. And the wind that blew him down last week stemmed clearly from the TV scandals. Cowan missed testifying before the Harris subcommittee last month when he developed a thrombophlebitic leg, but told investigators in his hospital room that he left his $64,000 packaging firm seven weeks after the show went...
Mike (the older brother) and Ralph Cahaly estimate that 90 per cent of their business comes from Harvard undergraduates. So dedicated are the two to the College trade that on snowy January final examination mornings they sell huge handfuls of three-penny postcards, at no profit to themselves, to students who have invariably forgotten to trek to the postoffice...