Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implying that the people in the U. S. are less pacific now than they were when they turned against the League of Nations. But that they are less inclined toward isolation and more inclined to collective action, TIME, considering recent public polls and public utterances of prominent Congressmen, trade unionists, editors, liberals and Democratic wheel-horses, does not doubt...
...abstaining, to call a constitutional convention this fall to form a permanent organization, President Dubinsky became less categorical: "The decision . . . creates a new situation. Until now, the C.I.O. . . has neither in its structure nor in its ultimate objectives been designed to be a permanent competitive organization in the American trade union field. . . . The question of our participation in such a convention or of joining such a new organization will be taken up and decided upon by our General Executive Board . .. late...
Since Iran was bent on proving her independence, lean pickings were in store for British advisers, British business. Ships were ordered from Italy and Italian officers were engaged to teach Iranian landlubbers theories of navigation. Barter trade was established with Soviet Russia and German goods began to pour into Iran under a clearing agreement arranged by the wily Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Among the first arrivals were 100 German warplanes for the Iranian air force. Danes. Czechs...
...adult population smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half of Iran's exports (excluding oil revenues, used exclusively for the army), bringing the King of Kings needed foreign money...
...future of trade in China, Arnold said foreign trade has naturally been very hard hit, but conditions outside of the war zone are not as bad as in Shanghat. He said that one of the great puzzles that foreign observers have not yet solved is why Japan has been so destructive when the alleged purpose of the Japanese is to enlarge the market for their goods. "Japanese economic cooperation in China is based on domination. No matter what happens," he added, "the International Settlement will be considerably changed...