Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polled by the trade's Motion Picture Herald...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
...that the export boom was not going to collapse; foreign nations were going to get the cash to keep the boom going. The U.S. hoped that with the European Recovery Program other nations would get on their feet again, and by their own production close the gap in foreign trade. Result: those in the U.S. who had patiently held off their buying, waiting for the drop in exports to ease the pressure on prices, had to jump back into the market...
...Trade-In. The Italian government followed up its monetary reform at home (TIME, Dec. 8) with a move to re-establish its credit abroad: it offered to exchange defaulted Italian bonds, par value $67,936,100, for a new 30-year issue with interest payable in dollars (1% until 1950, 3% from 1952 on). SEC lifted the wartime ban on trading in Italian bonds...
There were other questions, beyond oatmeal, to bother the Scottish M.P.s last week. "Is the President of the Board of Trade aware," asked Hector Hughes, "that in the city of Aberdeen there is a shortage of outsize nether garments, for men and boys over six feet in height...