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Many a free trader answers no. Says John Hight, executive director of the Committee for a National Trade Policy: "The Sugar Act is bad economics all the way around. There ought to be more competition. It's part of the whole protectionist problem. This part just happens to have been around longer." Free traders argue that the Sugar Act was spawned by an emergency that has long passed. The act is the outgrowth of a 1934 measure...
Mankowitz has exercised his self-reserved right so often that today he is less poacher than pro. Son of an East End trader who taught him that "the only good deal is one that shows everyone a profit," Cambridge-educated Wolf Mankowitz has made a good deal indeed for the British theater. He has brought it a bubbling British enthusiasm that pays off at the box office whether his shows are being polished in Director Joan Littlewood's East End Theater Royal or bargaining for big money on the other side of town. Even in the West...
Answer from a Fish. The chief credit for triggering the great change in U.S. eating habits belongs to a man named Clarence Birdseye, a fur trader, biologist and Yankee tinkerer from Gloucester, Mass. On a trip to Labrador some 40 years ago, Birdseye began to wonder why fish and meat that he froze quickly in the -50° temperature tasted just as good and fresh when he cooked them six months later, while food frozen by the old, slow method lost much of its quality and flavor. Birdseye persisted until he found out why: quick freezing prevents formation of large...
Another mineral is a rich reality. In 1941 a trader picked up a big black stone to ballast his canoe on the Amapari River, later had it analyzed. It turned out to be 60% pure manganese, and today the mine is the Amazon's biggest enterprise, shipping out 75,000 tons a year...
...that last week the foreign ministers of the Common Market met in Brussels to discuss moving forward from 1970 to 1965 the date when goods, men and money will move with complete freedom through the six-nation area that already bids fair to become the world's largest trader...