Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to relief from the 50-50 agreement, the British delegation, headed by Sir William Strang, was expected to ask Washington for relaxation on certain clauses in the loan agreement. The British wanted to continue empire trade preference and to protect dwindling dollar balances by restrictions on the convertibility of sterling into dollars. At best, such concessions could only relieve, not cure, Britain's economic ills. The circle of economic conferences came back to Paris' Grand Palais and the Marshall approach because of one appalling fact about the postwar world economy: Britain and other nations last year bought...
...spite of its sprawling unloveliness, Karachi is a bustling port (third biggest in India) and a center of the leather trade. The population swelled to almost 600,000 in recent years...
Canada cast up its accounts for half a year's trade with the U.S. and the figures were shocking. June shipments of $175 million had boosted the half-year import total to $981 million. Against this, Canada had sold only $482 million worth of goods to the U.S. The staggering adverse balance of almost half a billion in U.S. dollars made a big dent in the Dominion's war-hoarded reserves, even though hard-pressed Britain helped out by paying Canada in U.S. dollars for $220 million worth of food. The Bank of Canada's Graham Towers...
Calgary's Board of Trade made public a letter from foresighted Donald Hughes of Miami, Fla. He would soon be visiting Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise, he wrote. He was enclosing a check for $5, and he wanted some postcards with views of Calgary and the mountains. "I will address them before I leave and then will just have to put stamps on them and mail them when I'm on my holiday." That would give him more time to "really see Canada. ... I did this last year when I went to Quebec and it worked out just...
...ration the dollars she has left for world trade, Great Britain yesterday imposed a tight control over the remainder of the $3,750,000,000 loan from the U.S. Nations' Assembly September 16 when the U.S. yesterday referred it to Secretary of State Marshall yesterday told the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro that "the economic rehabilitation of Europe is vital to the economy of this hemisphere...