Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This discovery coincided with TIME Inc.'s own enlarged interest in world trade. TIME-LIFE International, which publishes our overseas editions, is founded on the belief that the exchange of news and goods between America and the rest of the world is for the benefit of all concerned. Its overseas editions carry advertising sold separately from TIME Inc.'s domestic editions, and there are at present more than 462 world traders advertising in them...
They are constructing a workers' state, or more precisely, a trade union state. Even this is not quite precise in contemporary U.S. terms. Though the sun never sets over the lands to which their sway extends, the Labor Party looks inward. The fate of Burma disturbs it less than a housewife's complaint, and the housewife will go unheard if a shop steward is discontented...
...beneath the double covering of trade union caution and British restraint, a fire smolders. Again & again at Scarborough it flashed forth in spite of restrained notes struck by Emanuel Shinwell, the conference chairman, and Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons. Morrison called for a period of "consolidation." He indicated that party bosses were going slow on further nationalization of industry...
Matsui, the Mitsubishi and other great families which had built up an octopuslike control of industry, banking and trade-would be put out of action. Nobody was surprised when ex-Baron Mitsui and the others were forced to turn in their holdings for government bonds-frozen for ten years-and to live dourly on official allotments of $40 a month...
...pinball industry is not the only one affected by the vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge barbers have it. They'll have to forget it until fall, however...