Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years; 3) enrollment in one of the service academies; 4) enrollment in the National Guard or the Organized Reserve with 48 evenings a year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s or in the Enlisted Reserve Corps at colleges, trade schools, etc., for courses in special techniques. The commission warned that the National Guard must be "far different" from the depleted, poverty-stricken organization it is today and must end its jurisdictional feud with the Organized Reserve...
There was no joy in Odessa. Telephones rang and excited voices demanded, "Give us back Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov!" The staid Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud headlined excitedly: "Kidnaping in Odessa." Three of the city's leading football (i.e., soccer) heroes -as dear to Odessa as Williams to Boston or Feller to Cleveland-had disappeared...
...Kris Kringle, but "Mister Macy" calls off the goons when it develops that Kris has turned one of the most lucrative good-will tricks in commercial history. "Mister Gimbel" hurriedly returns the compliment-he and Mister Macy are even photographed shaking hands-and the whole Manhattan department-store trade glows with the new love-your-neighbor policy...
What is worse, much of the cash and gold is not in the hands of those who need it most for trade. The biggest U.S. customers are rapidly exhausting their dollar resources. The $3.75 billion loan to Britain, for example, is being eaten away so much faster than anyone had calculated that it may be spent by early next year...
...really important moves to put dollars into the hands of U.S. customers must come from the U.S. itself. One means is the spending of American tourists abroad. The U.S. could also return some of its ocean trade to foreign bottoms, and pay for the service in dollars. Tariffs could be lowered and U.S. businessmen could send capital abroad in the form of foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year...