Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx's day, Europe was divided between these three attitudes towards The Machine. The old aristocracy tended to ignore The Machine, or to agree with Ned Ludd. The new aristocracy of trade committed itself to a philosophy of materialist progress. Some of the workers believed the promise; some believed Ned Ludd...
...were the backbone (if backbone it had) of Social Democracy. They were perhaps best epitomized by Sidney Webb, later Lord Passfield. He and his wife Beatrice loved the bicycle, and untiringly cycled about the business of their Fabian Society; once they pedaled 40 miles to Cardiff to attend a trade union congress. They believed not in the inevitability of revolution but in the "inevitability of gradualness," i.e., in a steady bicycle ride toward socialism...
...French repented one of their own dramatic gestures. Nearly two years ago, on the insistence of Communist cabinet members, Paris had stopped all trade with Spain, and closed the frontier. No other nation had gone that far, though most U.N. members joined in resolutions against Axis-loving Francisco Franco. By last week the French felt that the gesture had hurt French exports more than it had hurt Franco. They called it off, reopened the border...
...speech was the mention of a forth-coming official paper that will show how the countries of Eastern Europe are being squeezed dry by the Soviet Union, and that they face a possible deterioration--and soon--as the direct result of being yanked out of their normal and necessary trade relations with the West. And Professor Elliott said he was happy that the Communists were running things in Bulgaria, Romania, etc.... because they'd be blamed for it, and rightly...
Prospective advertising men can discover copious openings in virtually all phases of the huckstering trade save the focus-point-the agency, three leading advertising figures told a full house at the Placement Office's second career conference at Adams House last night...