Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That did not mean that Quill, one of labor's most devoted followers of the far-left line, had been converted all the way over to the right. But it did mean that Quill had put trade unionism ahead of politics and would be on Phil Murray's side if a showdown with the C.I.O.'s Communist-liners developed...
...Communist Flight. U.S. Intelligence had discovered that Russia intended to come out for the return of Trieste to Italy; the State Department beat the Russians to it. France's Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in Turin to sign a Franco-Italian trade agreement, announced that the U.S., Great Britain and France had decided that the Free Territory of Trieste should be returned to Italian sovereignty. He also promised a drive to help Italy regain some of her war-lost colonies...
Through the quiet, ever-grey want-ad columns of the London Times rang a challenging voice last week. It called for "well-educated young men who are willing to take off their coats and learn an exciting trade. Work arduous, filthy; you will be frozen to death in winter and roasted in summer. But the pay is good, and those who make the grade will have a job for life, with every opportunity to climb to a good position. . . . There is no reason why we can't have men who talk like Socrates and work like Hercules...
Last week, for the first time since 1943, such Geiger-counter hunting for uranium was opened to any prospector. In the House of Commons, Trade and Commerce Minister Clarence D. Howe announced the end of the ban on private uranium mining,*promised prospectors $2.75 a pound for ores with a minimum of 10% uranium oxide. Said Howe: the government is seeking "discovery of important deposits. At the moment we know of only one. We think there are others...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...