Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...credit to Clair Wilcox, who did all that was possible to clear the way for freer world trade. TIME believes that, despite the 123 bilateral agreements signed at Geneva, the tendency toward trade restriction is continuing...
...like it or not, the trade was forced to string along with a Chicago barkeep: "You gotta have it whether you want to or not . . . or you start holding hands with yourself...
...aptitude by offering sticks or pebbles to visitors who were rich in peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader did not like); yellow chips were worthless...
What with the dollar pinch, there is no chance of going back, anyway. At least, not for years. Young Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, has warned of another newsprint cut of about 7%. Newspapers can have only 115,812 tons of paper, 31% of prewar, for November through February. The government's allotment to itself: 20,500 tons...
...Prize in American History, which devoted 1,183 detail-packed pages to the brief but politically stormy period 1848-56. Five more volumes are to come. Bernard De Voto's Across the Wide Missouri covered another brief period, 1833-38, dealt lovingly, almost lyrically, with the American fur trade, the Rocky Mountain trappers and their breath-taking country. Mason Wade, biographer of Francis Parkman, did a good job in finding, and carefully editing, the historian's missing Journals...