Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France Libre: "Let's never play Don Quixote again. . . . By this silly closing of the frontier, we have lost an important market. . . . Others, more realistically minded than we, have taken our place. . . . Now we will have to reconquer the place we once held in Spain's foreign trade...
Clearly, the economic marriage was not between equals: the U.S. was not as dependent on Canada for any single product as Canada was on the U.S. for oil and steel. But there were a few items of trade which might make the Wherrymen call off their scalp-hunting. Or so Canadians hoped...
...last week, when John Taylor was inaugurated as president of the University of Louisville, students and professors had come to realize that he had his father's indomitable optimism. In nine months in office (before being officially inaugurated) drawling, 41-year-old John Taylor has drummed up more trade, money and headlines for the university than any president before...
Like Dior's new skirts, Paris prices were up (25 to 50%). Molyneux, who had tried to keep his prices down for the benefit of his big, pound-pinched British trade, asked 54,000 francs ($176 at the new free exchange rate) for a simple black afternoon dress, while Dior's simplest day dress was 62,000 francs ($202). But materials were finally getting back to prewar standards. Sighed Molyneux's directress: "So marvelous to know the customers won't come back screaming the day after a heavy rain...
Five hundred new cinemansions containing half a million new seats were built in 1947-the biggest year of theater construction since the booming '20s. This fact, announced by the trade magazine Boxoffice, seemed cause more for alarm than pride. For in the last three months more & more seats have been empty in U.S. movie houses. Only the showiest spectacles seemed sure to attract the customer's eye; three of Variety's top-grossing six were in Technicolor...