Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of the U. S. a vigorous diplomatic kick in the pants. The booting took the form of a long, strong reply to Japan's "unresponsive" answer last November to Secretary Hull's protest against Japan's slamming the open door in China to U. S. trade. Its chief points...
...guns and shells bearing the well-known trade-mark Skoda, made in Czechoslovakia will henceforth go only to those countries in goosestep with Hitler. The French Schneider-Creusot interests, which since 1920 have had a big interest in Skoda, Europe's second largest munitions works, last week sold their shares to CzechoSlovak interests. For thus recognizing "changed conditions" in eastern Europe, the former French shareholders were paid...
...most important treaties ever to be signed by one of the 21 American States was torpedoed by one of the smaller men in one of the smaller major American States. Hardly was the ink dry on the Pan-American Conference's unanimous resolution to eschew barter-trade deals with the European dictator nations, when small but rich Uruguay O. K.d a deal with Italy which, swapping wool for armaments, is expected to treble trade between the countries...
...seven years before turning it over to be technically run by his brother-in-law six months ago, was at home in Montevideo, touting the wonders of the Italian Government, whose guest he had just been. When the Uruguayan stooges at Lima got through renouncing the principle of trading with the dictatorships, Dr. Terra's Fascist friends cheerfully sprang the trade agreement they had been making for months in Rome...
...cotton textile industry two years ago noted with alarm that Japanese shipments of cotton textiles had grown from 1,115,000 square yards in 1933 to 155,000,000 in 1937. With a U. S. trade pact or a discriminating tariff impossible to arrange, Claudius Temple Murchison, president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, packed off to Japan with a delegation of businessmen. Somewhat to his own surprise he negotiated a private pact limiting imports from Japan to 255,000,000 yards for 1937 and 1938 (TIME, March 8, 1937). Last week, declaring the pact a great success, Dr. Murchison signed...