Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war, Canada went all-out to cultivate South America. Most-favored-nation trade agreements with Latin American countries were extended to a total of 16. By May of this year, there were Canadian Trade & Commerce Department offices in Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru. Canadian investments south of the Rio Grande, principally in mining, oil and public utilities, now total some $150 million.† Canadian banks and insurance companies are pushing business with the Latinos...
...deal is not all beer & skittles. Latin America, like Canada, trades in U.S. dollars. Because their dollar supply is dwindling, all countries except Venezuela and Cuba are restricting imports. That means fewer profitable trips for Canada's traveling salesmen. But they are not downhearted. Said Canada's Trade Minister James Angus MacKinnon last week: "The lively interest . . . both in this country and in the Latin American republics, in what each has to offer the other . . . has been extremely gratifying...
...teacher lost in a gin mill and primed to bawl out the customers. Seconds later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar, her name had drawn a record opening-night crowd which egged Chippie on with wild applause after each number and plied her with shots of straight gin after the show...
...dingy Tokyo office, Japan's first postwar deal in foreign trade was ceremoniously consummated last week. While klieg lights glared and cameras whirred, S. A. Stolaroff, vice president of New Orleans' United China & Glass Co., signed up for $62,000 worth of chinaware from several small Japanese companies...
Little else in the reopening of Japan to world trade had been run off so smoothly. Of the 114 foreign businessmen-75 of them from the U.S.-who had accepted SCAP's invitation to resume trading there were few without serious complaints...