Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrialists soundly fear that more efficient competitors in other countries would put them out of business if trade barriers were lifted. Economists are afraid that the dislocations necessary to attain the long-range objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more dollars. Politicians are afraid that economic hardships would give the Communists a chance to recapture lost ground. Said London's Economist last week: "[It] is not possible ... to telescope into one great act of policy a process which took over three generations to complete in the preindustrial United States...
...U.S.I. would control its own army & navy, although the Dutch would keep the right to use the Surabaya naval base under Indonesian supervision; the U.S.I. would also control its own economy, although it promised not to seize any Dutch property, and to consult the Dutch in making trade agreements with foreign nations...
Captain Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion expert, announced without any reticence that he would use his visit to buy clothes fashioned in this country. He planned to pick up a few functional resort and play fashions and take them back to his Paris salon to adapt them for the continental trade...
Last week, under the trade name of Anahist, neohetramine was being advertised and sold as a preventive and cure for the common cold. Other drug companies were scrambling for a piece of this obviously rich market. An affiliate of the Schering Corp. was pushing another anti-histaminic under the name Inhiston, and more trade-named cold pills were...
...determinedly friendly Norman Brokenshire, who has been on radio almost as long as static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...