Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loewe & Co., because of the boycott, charged 240 Danbury hatters with conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act, won a verdict for triple damages. Lest the defendant hatters lose their homes and savings, A. F. of L.'s Sam Gompers asked all Federationists to chip in an hour's pay, and eventually settled the judgment for $251,000 including damages...
...important raw materials outside her borders, needs real money. Germany reports about $29,000,000 in gold left (some esti mates: as high as $200,000,000). Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign assets and ex change, which Germany may not get (see p. 18). This loot was small but enough to make any pinched-bellied dictator's fingers itch...
That Hitler's eastern march had already impressed the Balkans was apparent from the quick answer he got from Rumania on his proposal to trade goods for foodstuffs...
...fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
Much confusion resulted from reports of the ultimatum, but at week's end the main results were that Rumania agreed to give Germany temporarily a greater share of her trade while refusing to surrender any political rights. Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...