Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shift showed that the trade unionists had lost and the technocrats had won. Sir Stafford Cripps, who has just eclipsed Herbert Morrison as the No. 1 economic wizard, will have men of the "manager" rather than the "leader" type around him. Apparently, Attlee had decided that Britain's workers would remain politically loyal to the Labor Party even if some of their own men were removed from key spots...
Another is Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
Liquor stores did a rush trade. Practically every Canadian who wanted a drink had the price of a bottle, though it came high. The turkey supply was spotty; there were plenty of birds around Winnipeg, but few in southern Alberta, where growers were holding out lor fatter prices at Christmas...
...Built in 1921, the Bluenose (143 ft. overall) won all five of the International Fishermen's Races. Diverted to inter-island cargo trade, she was lost on a West Indies reef in January...
...Sell. But the others, notably Capitol Records, Inc. (TIME, May 12) and RCA Victor, are coming up fast. This week and in the next three weeks, the industry will issue about 25 new albums for the Christmas trade, a new peak. Records have changed greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire...