Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little was heard of its effects on U. S. trade, and for good reason. Exports of arms, munitions and related materials in World War I amounted at most to only 25% of total exports to the Allies. In the first six months of 1939 shipments of the materials now embargoed accounted for a peewee proportion of total U. S. exports. Still on the permitted export list were such war necessities as oil, steel, grains and other foodstuffs, even parachutes...
Appointed to perform this job was Ronald Hibbert Cross, M. P., 43, an Old Etonian with a War record in the Lancaster Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps and a public career closely parallel to that of President Viscount ("Czecho-Slovakia") Runciman of the Board of Trade, for which Mr. Cross has been Parliamentary Secretary. By trade a merchant-banker, six-foot Ronald Cross has before now earned personal preferment as high as Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household in 1937. As lord-master of neutral shipping, he will now be a key war figure, with Viscount Cecil...
...public life in Europe so often devolves. Morand's academic background is his link with professorial "Soldier Premier" Daladier; he attended Oxford University and the Paris School of Political Science. He has served in France's London, Rome and Madrid embassies but never dabbled in the world trade which he will now help govern...
...paying the bill he persuaded a caravaneer to pay it with a bum check. Only after the hotel had detained them both two days did Promoter Rose come across with the money. Undaunted by the tribulations of the 1938 trip, when it was ended Promoter Rose began drumming up trade for his 1939 season. He had already collected $4,930 from prospective caravaneers ("My bird dogs"), when the ICC opened its investigation. To inquiries into a 20-cent-a-day-per-person food allowance, Promoter Rose blandly explained: "Some times we get a little something added to it, and then...
...were clear but no bottoms were available at a time when lumber and logs, wheat and flour, canned salmon, apples, should soon be moving. (Apple shippers were grim; Great Britain. Germany, France take all their exports.) It looked as if Seattle's $1,000,000-a-day export trade would be reduced to a trickle...