Word: traded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman said little on foreign policy in his message to Congress. It was striking that in what he did say he was conciliatory. He stressed international cooperation; he did not put foreign policy in terms of "get-tough-with-Russia." He requested the restoration of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act "to full effectiveness," and the admission of displaced persons "without unfair discrimination." He did ask for universal military training, and a strengthening of the national military organization, but this section of the speech was almost incidental--hardly warlike. The overwhelming emphasis was on the peaceful projects of "the Fair Deal...
Ever since the war, Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has pitted the Roman Catholic Church against the Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary...
...program has been in the works since Minister of Trade & Commerce Clarence Decatur Howe broached it to top U.S. brass in Washington last summer. The first step was to get the approval of the National Military Establishment, which controls the designs of U.S. planes. The second was to make a deal with the U.S. aircraft manufacturers...
...Maritimes, housewives were buying more medium, fewer large eggs. Men's tailors were busy turning worn trouser cuffs and shirt collars. In Montreal, a top ski-suit designer found customers buying for price. Said he: "I'm doing a lot of Ford business, but my Rolls-Royce trade is dropping...
...prospects are by no means gloomy. But could the 2,000,000 sets which manufacturers hope to turn out in 1949 be sold at current high prices? Admiral's Siragusa said no: "The honeymoon is over . . . [We'll have to use] all the tricks of the trade and [develop] some new and fresh ones . . . [and] sell at competitive prices...