Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Congress convenes in a momentous session to decide the U. S. stand on neutrality for the opening of World War II. This week a FORTUNE survey will show that: 1) two-thirds of the American people are against a strict U. S. isolationist policy; only 25% oppose all trade with belligerents; 2) 83% want Britain and France to win the war; 65% thought they could (before Russia came in); 3) 17% are willing to send U. S. armed forces to fight for the Allies, and 20% favor helping them by all means short of war. Further FORTUNE findings...
Denmark was not badly off, although exports to Britain (50% of Denmark's trade) were declining. With enough gasoline for three months, Denmark locked it up, canceled private motoring. There were enough raw materials, foodstuffs, consumers goods, but Government officials said rationing might begin after September...
...lately been buying some $2,000,000 worth of expropriated oil a month up to September 1. The Mexican Government missed the cash. The manufactured goods Mexico had been getting from the Reich she stopped getting, leaving the market to the U. S., with which Mexico is reluctant to trade. Then there was trouble about the nine refugee ships in her harbors. Their radio rooms had to be sealed, their crews watched. Up to its ears, the Mexican Foreign Office, which usually gives a diplomatic reception on Independence Day, called the whole thing off this week...
...base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests of the civil needs of the country...
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...