Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Board of Trade economist figured out a table for British workers...
...moral, if any, seemed to be that grousing was one British product not intended for the export trade...
...free market in gold. To Premier Schuman and Finance Minister Mayer, the free gold market was the lodestone that would draw hoarded gold and hidden assets from buried iron pots and foreign banks. This in turn would stimulate production and provide a stabilizing base for currency and foreign trade. To the Socialists, the 25% fine to be levied against hoarders was inadequate punishment for unpatriotic speculators...
...Such shipments were not specially specified in the records," answered Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. The House laughed good-naturedly. But the answer did not completely satisfy another honorable gentleman. "If there are any of the bottles left over," cried Communist Willie Gallacher, "will the Board President see that they are passed on to the miners in my constituency...
...Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...