Word: traded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...
Since May, U.S.-Argentine trade has increased roughly 50%. The Argentines are gradually paying off their short-term U.S. debt. Perón has told Bruce that Argentina, which once more is trading at world prices, will shortly fold up its state-trading agency...
...reporters took their readers on a guided tour of 46 flophouses, where 12,413 bums slept in lousy cubicles for 50? or 60? a night. They watched hard-faced jackrollers stripping the pockets and stealing the shoes from sodden bums, saw prostitutes plying their trade amid the lumber piles and back alleys, found that "a surprisingly large number [of derelicts] at one time were trusted employees, executives or professional...
Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...
...long will the boom last? Said the trade publication, the Boys' Outfitter: "Parents, sooner or later, are going to resist the Western trend...Johnny and Billy forever in...blue jeans, wearing sombreros in the home, and raising the roof with yipee and hi-ho while popping up and down behind chairs and sofas shooting off cap guns. [But at present] no end...is in sight...