Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southport's Floral Hall Britain's real rulers gathered last week. There Government Ministers faced the rank & file of the T.U.C. (Trade Union Congress) who saw their Socialist dream of high wages and short hours slipping away in Britain's crisis. The big, unpleasant question, posed by the Government, was this: Can there be real "planned economy" unless the Government has the power to plan and control labor...
Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...
...Canadian way," said Fred McGregor, Combines (monopolies) Investigation Commissioner. "The Canadian way consists basically of publicity, followed by polite-mannered but effective prosecution. There's no bullying." Forthwith, for the first time since 1939, he reached out and smacked a little-known Canadian industry with a restraint-of-trade accusation...
McGregor's 25-man commission, which operates chiefly from tips, began work last year when dentistry reports at the University of Toronto complained about the cost of dental supplies. The commission, in a 98-page report last week, charged that: 1) the Canadian Dental Trade Association is a monopoly; 2) it suppresses competition by controlling about 85% of the _Dominion's dental-supplies business; 3) it gouges Canada's 4,602 dentists by fixing prices (sample: a dental chair that costs $695 in the U.S. costs $957 in Canada...
Canadians may look on the Pan American Union and a hemisphere defense treaty with a jaundiced eye (TIME, Sept. 8) t they are glad to do business with their Latin American neighbors. Before the war, Canada's trade with Latin America was a piddling one-half of 1% of her total foreign commerce. By 1946 it had jumped to 5.1%, amounted to $218,290,000. It is still growing. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported last week that in July Canada's exports to Latin America totaled $9,366,000, against $6.806,000 for July...