Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correct to say, as you do, that the British led an attack on the U.S. freer trade program at Geneva. . . . It is true that the United Kingdom did not grant all of the requests made by the United States. It is equally true that the United States did not grant all of the requests made by the United Kingdom. The result . . . was a compromise which was acceptable to both Governments...
...that the General Agreement adds up to more barter and bilateralism and, probably, to a reduced flow of goods. It is true that this Agreement, in itself, will not suffice to reconstruct economies disrupted by the war, nor to correct the serious imbalance that now characterizes world trade. For this, other measures are now being considered by the countries of Western Europe and by the Congress of the United States. Until reconstruction is really under way and the present imbalance in trade substantially reduced, a large measure of bilateralism and even of barter will undoubtedly persist. But there is nothing...
Office of International Trade Policy...
Although no regular central committee is envisioned, the various associations saw eye to eye on the necessity of frequent conclaves in the future to trade information on related activities...
Immediately after the War, however, a reaction set in. Standards of scholarship declined as students treated the school as a place to learn a trade. No Faculty meetings had been held in 20 years, and the course offerings of the school remained unchanged throughout the period. By 1869 the situation had grown so bad that the influential American Law Review declared: "The condition of the Harvard Law School is almost a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...