Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half of Sunday's bill was the playoff between Princeton and Yale for the intercollegiate cup, offered by the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Yale was the favorite, and most of the Harvard team who stayed around to watch the second game, were gratified to see the Bulldog take an unexpected pounding. Princeton fought for every minute, and her little scrum-half, John Cotter from Chile, put in the best performance of any of the visiting college players. Although Yale rallied considerably in the second half, Princeton finally conquered by 6 to 4 to win the championship...
...wrote, more than 300 years ago, a Lancashire merchant named Gerard Ma-lynes, faithful servant to Elizabeth of England and one of Britain's earliest economic writers. Two centuries after Ma-lynes this became the bright gospel of "Free Trade," which seemed to promise to all men the freedom of the ocean, the tolerance of the high road and the fraternity of the market place. Of late decades, the promise has dimmed. Last week ended, somewhat dismally, a revival meeting of the once stirring gospel...
Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...
Editor Cudlipp has steered a cautious course between the conflicting demands of popular taste and party tactics. Today the Herald prints very few stories of sex and adventure but more than ardent Laborites think it should; it also prints more stories about Labor and the trade unions than readers of the rival Daily Mail and Express want to labor through. Though duller than its Fleet Street rivals, the Herald is London's third largest daily paper, and the only one which steadily supports Labor...
...employee of American Relief for Italy, Inc., charged them with fraudulent use of Government documents and disguising illegal exports as relief shipments. Licenses, said the Department of Commerce, were made out to specific exporters for specific shipments; any exporter caught buying or selling them could be barred from his trade...