Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed the $6 billion appropriation for the foreign-aid program; the one-year extension of the reciprocal trade bill, with regret that it was not for the usual three-year period; the draft bill; appropriation bills carrying almost $10½ billion to bolster the Army, Navy and Air Force; the $573 million waterways and flood-control bill (TIME...
...plank was full of knots. It endorsed reciprocal trade agreements, but added a phrase which left the door open for high tariffs and a generally protectionist policy. Otherwise, the foreign policy section followed the precepts of Senator Vandenberg...
...Extended the President's power to make reciprocal trade agreements for one year (instead of three), authorizing the Tariff Commission to determine how much rates could be cut without danger to domestic industry...
Imports & Exports. U.S. foreign trade declined in April, the Bureau of the Census reported. From their record high of $666 million in March, imports were down 21% to $527 million. Exports, despite ECA shipments of $9.9 million, were down from $1.14 billion to $1.12 billion...
Scrap. Japan, a big prewar buyer of U.S. steel scrap, offered to sell some postwar scrap. Through the New York trade office of SCAP (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers), the Japanese Board of Trade offered 137,000 metric tons of steel and scrap to the highest U.S. bidders...