Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the assurance that France would try to stop cheapening of the pound, the French went ahead with the" Mayer plan. They pegged the "official franc" at about 214 to the dollar for use in the export-import trade, planned to set up a free market for trading in dollars...
Ruhr coal was coming out of the ground at a postwar record of 254,000 tons daily; aside from food imports, Bizonia had a favorable trade balance during the past year...
Stubby, bubbly Sherover, 59, has made a fortune out of his ideas and his energy. He has edited a newspaper in Buffalo, built a hotel in Brooklyn, managed a trade magazine in Tokyo, designed a correspondence course ("How Do You Know You Can't Write?"), and run the Linguaphone Institute into a million-dollar business. He speaks eleven languages himself, none learned by Linguaphone. He looks so much like Actor Claude Rains that autograph hounds often pursue him until rebuffed in cold Japanese...
...restaurant in London's Olympia exhibition hall last week, British government officials sat down to a meal of "Frood," a new British product hailed as a likely dollar-getter in the export trade. But Frood turned out to be nothing more than precooked frozen food. With the U.S. frozen-food market already oversold, it looked as if Britons could not have picked a worse time to try to invade it. The only thing to give U.S. businessmen pause was that Frood's maker, J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., was not likely to back a bad bet. By consistently backing...
...things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk; and the movie can take a place, without blushing, among the best ever made. But unlike many films of high quality, it does not wear its art on its sleeve. This admirable reticence may earn Treasure some peculiar awards. Movie trade papers are treating it as a western; Daily Variety called it "action stuff with heavy masculine appeal." Reviewer Virginia Wright wrote in the Los Angeles Daily News: "[The] audience . . . seemed to find [Treasure] hilariously funny and, once having decided the spectacle was comic, they laughed indiscriminately at murder, fear...