Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harried Theodore Atanasoff, Bulgarian trade representative, it seemed like a good idea at the time. His trade mission had been sent to Germany last July to buy automobiles, spare parts, shoemaking machines, airplane tires and numerous other articles difficult to acquire in Bulgaria. Not having any dollars for these purposes, but having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited...
Strength Through Smallness. Within his own party, he is a formidable figure who knows all there is to know about party management. This know-how is crucial in the Labor Party, which is an insecure amalgam of two parties-the trade unionists, who have the votes, and the theoretical socialists, who supply the agitation. Clement Attlee's strength is his neutral smallness. All the big men around him belong to one side or the other. Attlee belongs to both and to neither...
Canadians must get along with fewer U.S. automobiles, washing machines, radios, refrigerators and Florida vacations. To bring its dollar trade into balance, the Dominion Government is going to cut imports from the U.S., even though it means lowering the Canadian standard of living. In seven months (January-July) Canada bought $573 million more from the U.S. than she sold there. At that rate the deficit would be almost $1 billion by year...
...quickly rejected, for it would force Canada into the sterling bloc. Some Canadians suggested economic union with the U.S.-razing tariff walls and eventually tearing down the customs houses. This was politically impossible; in 1911 Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government was tossed out for proposing a milder trade reciprocity. Besides, economic union would almost certainly lead to political union...
Privately, top-flight officials admitted that restricting imports would be a form of economic nationalism and a bar to the freer, multilateral trade that Canada seeks for the long haul. "It's shocking-horrible," said one, "but we're doing it only as a last resort and we're going to make it as temporary as we can. Meanwhile, we aren't headed for anything like British austerity. We'll cut down, but we'll still get by and have a good time...