Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your good-natured and impartial account, (TIME, March 8), of the debate in the Senate on approving for another three years the current trade agreements policy suggests again the remarkable dearth of popular interest in this very practical aspect of our foreign affairs. In what other country with, such far-flung foreign trade and investments would Senators view with genuine alarm an increase in the receipt of the good things of this earth from abroad and cry for a return to the days when we habitually shipped out much more than we received? Intelligent readers desiring light on the facts...
Against three operators of a restaurant "trade association" and four officers of waiters' and cafeteria workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes, he asserted, they had forced the terrorized proprietors of The Hollywood, French Casino, Brass Rail, Jack Dempsey's, St. Regis, Lindy's and many a lesser restaurant and cafeteria to join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn...
...particular man in mind, nor any other definite plan. He expected no answer to his cablegram, got none. In Vatican City Pope Pius XI, prayerful and thankful that he had been spared to pass his 79th Easter week, his 15th as Pontiff, had more important things to do than trade views with Señor Palacio...
...Clipper starts back to Honolulu and thence to Manila. Other planes will take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four-day service to the fourth best U. S. customer. New Zealand-Australia trade with the U. S. now amounts to $10,000,000 a month. Quickest steamship passage is 19 days...
...northern Depression, Canada's financial centre of gravity shifted westward from the first city of the Dominion to the second, from staid old Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount Royal, and Montreal became about...