Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British goods,"he said, "and the dollar gap can be closed . . . First, study carefully what the Americans want. Then make it at prices they are able and willing to pay, and package it to appeal to the American consumer. That is the way to earn dollars...This will take energetic salesmanship as well as cheap production. It is the challenge confronting the business statesmanship of Britain...
Such economies would bring on personnel dismissals, temporary unemployment and a grave risk for Labor's political prestige. "What of it?" snapped one harassed party chief last week. "It's got to be done. We've got to take the risk...
...AMERICANS: "Nothing could well be more disastrous than that America should take sides ... in the British general election." FOR BRITONS: "The British public should try to be less touchy about what is said in America. The real test is what is done, and by that test the United States Government has leant over backwards to avoid anything that could be construed as interference...
...week's end the threat of a bank run appeared to be ended, but Mexican bankers and politicos had not heard the last of smuggled silver. Congressmen were ready to take the matter up this week...
...National League lead seesawed through August, fans who lived far from Brooklyn or St. Louis began to take sides. The Midwest, from Chicago to the Ozarks and down into Texas, was Cardinal country; the Dodger cheering section was centered east of the Alleghenies. The two teams had almost monopolized the National League pennant since 1940-the Cards won it four times and the Dodgers twice-and it was clear to all but the die-hards of mathematical chance that one of them was going to do it again. As far west as San Francisco last week, Dow-Jones tickers carried...