Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret to the U. S. State Department has been the penetration, economic and intellectual, of the German and Italian dictatorships in Latin America. Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties with Latin America are a move to meet Europe on economic grounds: largely because of them U. S. trade increased from 40% to 90% in a year as compared with a 30% increase for Germany, 1½% for Italy. Except for Franklin Roosevelt's sensational selling tour in 1936, however, the U. S. has been too sensitive to the cry of imperialism at home and abroad to organize...
...Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world-minded. A few Denver intransigeants call Director Cherrington a Communist, but real Communists call him a "pantywaist." To Mr. Hull he was recommended by his able expositions of the Hull trade agreement program...
During and after the World War, Mr. Walter Runciman, as he was then, served under various Prime Ministers in such capacities as President of the Board of Trade, combined the Liberal fervor of a Gladstone with tireless practical energy, plus a modern grasp of economics. In 1930, when enormous shipping interests headed by the late Lord Kylsant and including the Royal Mail, faced scandal and collapse, Mr. Runciman stepped in to help unsnarl British shipping chaos by rapid, efficient reorganization...
...sixth largest in the world, Angola has long been the Cinderella colony. What little Portuguese and private funds were available went to develop Mozambique, on the other side of Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters of a century...
...examples cited by Attorney Arnold of the A. M. A.'s restraint of trade: A G. H. A. doctor who referred a heart case to a specialist was forbidden to consult personally with the specialist and was forced to communicate with him through the mails. A G. H. A. doctor called to an acute appendicitis case at midnight found all the hospitals in Washington barred to him, was forced to relinquish the operation to another surgeon...