Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy City. Mountain-rimmed Salt Lake City (pop. 183,000) is no longer a fortress and a prison. Last week the town which Brigham Young laid out "foursquare with the compass" with wide streets and ten-acre blocks, was a center of Western commerce and trade, hub of three railroads, four airlines, four main highways. It is one of the cleanest and friendliest cities in the U.S., and one of the healthiest. The descendants of the lean and desperate Mormon pioneers have a well-fed, well-dressed, freshly scrubbed and glowing look. Mormon women walk with a high-bosomed...
...good, brisk trade. There were thousands of New York's Puerto Ricans who wanted to go back home for a visit, but could not pay the $130 fare charged by the regular airline. By crowding them into converted Army transports, however, chartered lines could carry them and make money at only $50 a head. Puerto Ricans are small, and CAA agreed that the nonscheduled planes could load up to the maximum allowable weight, regardless of number, if there was a seat and a safety belt for each passenger...
...decisive." The U.S., not a participant in the conference, remained well in the background. However, the delegates were learning what the U.S. meant by European selfhelp. Ramadier gave a luncheon for U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, who has become the world's foremost foe of trade barriers. After that, the delegates began to talk more about removal of European trade barriers...
...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...
...jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to [the following] acts: . . . quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; . . . protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants . . .; cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; . . . transporting us . . . to be tried for pretended offenses; . . . abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of . . . governments...