Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After having enjoyed a vivid report of the international white slave trade, which caused more than one delegate to lose his temper, the Council of the League is confronted with the equally spectacular but more difficult task of dealing with the dicator of Poland...
Although no aircraft has yet flown from Berlin to Manhattan, German toy makers released last week for the Christmas trade a mimic airplane painted in bright letters BERLIN-NEW YORK...
...must reach 1,750,000,000 marks ($416,500,000) for the first time, the deputies were in no hurry, last week, to consider the figures which explain how Germany can pay so huge a sum. As the session began, only minor bills were considered, and the Franco-German Trade Treaty was rushed through its third and final reading...
...Great Britain the shipbuilding, armament and heavy engineering industries still suffer the after-effects of the War. As result the British iron & steel trade (notably Vickers Ltd., and Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.) has suffered. Last year and the year before Armstrong, Whitworth had heavy losses. Vickers's earnings have been so poor that the company two years ago reduced its capital from $128,420,000 to $88,396,287, in order to make its dividend rate look respectable...
...Whereas until 1924 Great Britain exported more iron & steel than any other European country, in 1925 France took the lead. Last year Germany became leader (5,348 metric tons). However, England's coal strike last year (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.) had a disastrous effect on her trade...