Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People took a kind of revenge. There was a substantial buyer resistance. Liquor sales were down. People shopped for clothes, furniture, housing, and even entertainment, and stalked out if they didn't think the price was right. Las Vegas' luxurious gambling hells lost trade. So did the nation's movie theaters. Top pictures like The Yearling and The Hucksters had to be well-ballyhooed, or audiences were thin. Because of the expense, both marriages and divorces had fallen off since the summer of 1946. In the heat, thousands of citizens everywhere thriftily painted and repaired their...
There was an international item for the deep thinkers: zoos in London and Moscow had agreed on a trade in snakes; and a social tidbit for the gossip column: a cow of Victoria, Australia, whose husband had lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial...
...hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade their few belongings for food...
...American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer wanted to drown...
...Antonians, recently awakened to the potentialities of U.S.-Mexican trade, have begun to share Tano Lucchese's enthusiasm. Each year, some 30,000 Mexicans come to San Antonio from across the border, some 130 miles away. Even more important than the millions they spend is San Antonio's position as the gateway to Mexico. Last year, the Laredo customs district handled $333,300,000 worth of U.S. exports most of which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar...