Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership would surely attempt, the earthquake tremor of fear of American isolationism which has already struck Europe could well become paralytic...
...Shelved, and thereby virtually killed, home rule for the District of Columbia, which has been governed by congressional committee for 70 years. ¶ Ignored Secretary George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
Domestic Dilemma. Britain's Board of Trade reported that Great Britain is now exporting goods to the U.S. at a rate of $264,000,000 a year, up 60% over last year and 100% over the first quarter of this year. But Britain's total imports in April rose proportionately even more, pushing her adverse balance of trade for the month to $218,000,000, highest since last fall...
...Deal. Marvin E. Coyle, General Motors' executive vice president, told auto dealers they should stop forcing motorists to trade in their cars when buying new ones (dealers usually sell the trade-ins at far more than they allow the customers). Dealers' discounts are fat enough, said Coyle, without the extra trade-in profit. Said he: "If [the dealer] is assured that the new car will not pass into the black market, he should permit the customer to sell his own used car if he wishes...
...serial, finished last week. Superman, which cost $350,000, is one of the most expensive serials ever made. It will not be seen on Broadway, nor reviewed in the papers, but it will play in 7,000 U.S. movie houses and hundreds of schools. After 36 years, the serial (trade name: cliffhanger) is still a profitable Hollywood industry...