Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SEPT. 7. In Berlin, Marshal Sokolovsky plainly ignores the directive, demands further restrictions (on air traffic) before even talking about relaxing any restrictions whatever. He also demands Soviet control over all trade between Berlin and the Western zones...
...bankruptcy was caused not merely by World War II but by a far more profound historic change. Miss Ward calls it the end of the 19th Century. That vanished age was essentially a British age. Britannia's vessels ruled the waves, and Britannia's notions of free trade ruled markets and minds. Britannia's notions of the balance of power kept the world in a rough & ready sort of peace. That order came to an end with the 20th Century's world wars, colonial rebellions, and (above all) the rise of U.S. power. Gone, suddenly, were...
...suit filed in Chicago, Clark charged that the four big packers, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and Swift, were monopolizing the trade in federally inspected meat (the only meat that may be shipped across state borders). The Big Four, said the Attorney General, sold 58% of the cattle, 54% of the hogs, 68% of the calves, and 79% of all the sheep slaughtered under federal inspection. He accused them of getting together on buying & selling prices, and setting sales quotas to keep prices...
...three months ended July 31, the rise in dividends was 8%-from $1,287,100,000 a year ago to $1,392,700,000. Manufacturing led the list with gains of 8% to 20% in everything except food processing, which was up only 3%. Wholesale and retail trade dividends were up 5%, while heat, light, and power dividends fell...
Race Street (RKO Radio) presents George Raft as a Los Angeles gambler, William Bendix as a detective friend, and Henry Morgan as a crippled friend. The cripple gets brutally killed by "protection" racketeers. Detective Bendix, true to his trade, wants to hunt down the killers in lawful and orderly fashion. Gambler Raft, like all shady characters, is faithful to a code which scorns help from a copper. They argue this difference of technique, in a friendly way, until Raft's enemies, seeing them together, conclude that Raft is playing stool pigeon. That puts him in real trouble. There...