Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Secretary of State Will Clayton whipped back from Switzerland last week in haste and alarm. He left behind him the Geneva Conference which the U.S. State Department hoped would open new ways to world peace through freer world trade. The conference was stalled. It was stalled because of reports from the U.S. Congress. Largely due to the influence of Arthur Vandenberg late last winter, Congress had let the State Department go ahead with its reciprocal trade program. But even as Clayton arrived in Washington, Minnesota's irreconcilable Isolationist Harold Knutson warned: Congress will promptly raise any tariff...
...Truman Doctrine was concerned with U.S. opportunities, there were plenty of places to begin. Scandinavia had not sounded any alarm yet (though Russia has tied up Sweden's economy in a five-year trade treaty). The Dutch had not collapsed yet, though they faced a double calamity-loss of Indonesian trade and breakdown of business with Germany. Belgium was a highly bankable risk...
High on George Marshall's priority list was the problem of Western Germany. If trade with the British and American zones can be restored, there will be more coal for France (which needs coal even more than dollars), more freight for the Dutch canals and Belgian railways, more prosperity-and fewer fire alarms-for Western Europe in general...
...continental event," pontificated President Perón. Brazil's press had almost nothing to say. A Brazilian proposal for joint mediation in Paraguay's stalemated civil war stalled. The tired topic of a wheat-for-rubber trade treaty stood where it had before-on the shelf...
...irreverent and inimitable tabloid New York Daily News continued to shoot up. The U.S. newspaper with the most readers now has 2,375,000 daily customers and 4,800,000 on Sundays. Yet Joe Patterson's old title of president was unfilled. At first most of the trade bet that cousin Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune) McCormick and sister Eleanor Medill (Washington Times-Herald) Patterson would soon move in. But even Bertie and Cissie could see that the News was doing fine without them, in the hands of two home-town boys: Francis M. Flynn, the general manager, and Richard...