Word: traded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most manufacturers of brand products support fair trade and the Miller-Tydings...
...Russians ordered the 26 Red members of the Assembly to the Admiralspalast, and filled out the rump convention with some 3,000 hand-picked delegates from Communist-controlled trade unions, splinter parties, women's and youth's groups. Each delegate was given a white card, to make the voting look impressive when they raised their hands. The leader, proposed that the present "undemocratic, reactionary city administration be dismissed." The white cards fluttered like snow on the wind; the vote in favor was unanimous. A candidate was proposed for mayor, and again the white cards waved. A list...
Back at the factory, Nijverdal's union leaders felt the same way. "Before help came last spring," said Cornelius Kalkhoven, company representative of the Christian National Federation of Trade Unions, "you could feel the tension through your wooden shoes." Said the Catholic union's young Hendrik Grondman: "Our men will never go back to the peat bogs...
Central Europeans are fond of making comparisons between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. One goes like this: a delegation of U.S. trade unionists visiting Moscow is taken to a huge factory. One car stands outside the building. An American asks: "Whose is this plant?" "It belongs to the workers." "And whose is this car?" "The car belongs to the director." Later on, some Russian unionists return the visit. Their American colleagues take them to Detroit. They stop before a huge factory building where several thousand cars are lined up. A Russian asks: "Whose factory is this?" "It is Ford...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...