Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that translation should be effected, he himself did not know last week so long as Ambassador Wilson remained on the high seas. With the Ambassador's landing this week, the President may make up his mind: 1) to construe the pogrom as a discrimination against U. S. trade and flex the tariff on German goods; 2) to neglect to send Ambassador Wilson back, a diplomatic slap; 3) to ask Congress temporarily to increase the immigration quota for German refugees. Germany's and Austria's combined quota of emigrants...
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and A. F. of L. last week gave a practical demonstration of trade-union trading. A. & P. signed A. F. of L. contracts covering its Washington and Chicago stores, prepared to follow suit elsewhere. A. F. of L.'s part of the bargain: to oppose Representative Wright Patman's pending bill to tax big A. & P. and many a lesser store chain out of existence...
...Britain and France were liberal with credits to the small States of Europe, in the belief that such grants could stave off German commercial expansion. But with the Munich Pact and British Prime Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan of $75,000,000; 2) British capital to develop Rumania's oil fields; 3) increased British purchases of Rumanian oil and wheat; 4) the raising of the representative...
...unpleasant realities of 1938 for the Occident is that the West is being kicked out of East Asia by Japan. The recent establishment of the monopolistic, Japanese-financed North China and Central China Development Companies is an extension of the same Japanese methods used to squeeze Occidental trade out of Manchukuo. Japan's conquest of Canton last month put 20,000 British traders in Hong Kong temporarily, if not permanently, out of business. The Yangtze Valley is virtually closed to all except Japanese salesmen...
...constituency in which Aitken ran was Ashton-Under-Lyne, a Liberal stronghold. The lively little financier had brought with him from Canada something besides bonds, a passionate but practical belief in Empire. To keep the British Empire whole and strong he hit upon "Empire Free Trade"-which means the building of a tariff wall around the Empire and the tearing down of all tariffs within...