Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience was some 2,000 industrialists, businessmen, union and government officials in London's Central Hall. Murmured a businessman, as the president of Britain's Board of Trade tripped to the rostrum: "There he comes, so quietly...
Some people don't like Benchley. But then some people don't like Coca-Cola, baseball games, or the Old Howard. Benchley's stock in trade is undiluted humor -- sometimes tempered with sophistication, cynicism, or satire, but invariably funny as hell. No one knows precisely what makes people laugh. Benchley's theory is that "all laughter is merely a compensatory reflex action to take the place of sneezing." If this is true, Benchley must be an awful pain in the neck for the manufacturers of Kleenex, a product which would have alarmingly small sales among the devotees...
Recently recognized by the U.N. Department of Public Information, the speakers bureau will supply well-informed students to civic groups, labor unions, and women's clubs. Participation in governmental hearings is also expected following last year's testimony in State Department sessions on the International Trade Organization...
Creaks & Cobwebs. Soon after their arrival, they learned that they would have to submit elaborate applications in sextodeciplicate for permission to go ahead on any deal, await clearance through an involved hierarchy which included Boeki Kodan (the Japanese Government's Public Trade Co.), Boeki Cho (its Board of Trade), and, finally, SCAP. Then they found-as they had been warned by SCAP (TIME, June 16)-that the quantity, quality, and variety of Japanese goods were small. But the Japanese were anxious to improve them...
...neat, new Tokyo Hotel and Hotel Teito, where the visiting traders were cordially welcomed by K. Nagai director of Boeki Cho, and A. B. Kram, chief of SCAP's foreign trade economic section, and handsomely housed, shabby little Japanese manufacturers eagerly crowded around businessmen, jotted down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from...