Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary activities received more generous support when parishioners were brought, by the motion picture, directly to the countries to be served. Banks and trade associations began to use the films to widen the broad knowledge that their employees need in their jobs. Colleges and schools found that the films made academic subjects come alive...
...merchantmen. When Germany broke with Russia he declared: "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism." In February 1941, he said that the danger of attack by Japan was "simply fantastic." He opposed Bretton Woods, the reciprocal trade agreement, the "Voice of America," the loan to Britain. He supported the U.N. Charter but later voted against participation in U.N. "As long as vetoes are insisted upon," he said, "there is no real will to peace. . . ." He tried to limit ERP to $4 billion, but finally voted...
Voluntary Conformity. To the Labor Government, however, the new tax was not only an attractively easy way of raising a lot of money, but a soak-the-rich sop to trade unionists whom it has asked to accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...
...last summer, Ontario's Premier George Drew had been whooping up his air immigration scheme. When the first goal of 7,000 British immigrants was reached last month, he announced that 8,000 more would be flown in by October. Last week he killed the project. His explanation: Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe wanted to grab all Ontario's immigration traffic for the government's Trans-Canada Air Lines...
John Brown U.'s 450 students spend half the time in class, the other half learning a trade in workshops, on the farm, at the airport, printshop or radio station. As in 1919, the Bible is still the book J.B.U. students know best, and drinking and dancing are forbidden on College Hill...