Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the postwar backlog of orders was so bad that even our own people often had to wait a year or two. None of them knew until I told them that Russia has thus far refused to join every international economic agency, from the World Bank to the International Trade Organization...
...trade secret that the big planemakers have been having trouble. But how bad is it? The planemakers last week answered with a single word: "Help...
...nerve center of U.S. agricultural economics is the vast, modern Chicago Board of Trade Building. Its massive 41 floors loom as large as agriculture does in the U.S. economy. Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more grain is bought & sold than anywhere else in the world, sometimes months before it is even grown. Last week a TIME correspondent paid a visit to Ceres' slightly mad court...
...took the first cautious step last week to open Japan to private foreign trade. A Government trade mission arrived in Tokyo to survey Japan's shattered industry. The mission wants to find out what Japan can make, what raw materials will be needed, and how material imports can be financed. Then, some time this summer, it hopes to lift the ban on private trade. Even then, trade will be strictly regulated, and bulk commodities like tea, raw silk, and cotton goods will still be handled by the U.S. Commercial...
Until now U.S.C.C. has monopolized Japanese foreign trade. Its job of reviving Japan's biggest export industry, textiles, has been good enough already to make Chinese textilemen cry that they have been betrayed, and U.S. textilemen are grumbling. The Chinese had expected to have at least ten years to build up their own textile industries before there was any Japanese competition. But of the 12 million prewar Japanese spindles, 2.5 million are now operating, thanks to shipments of 900,000 bales of cotton owned by the Commodity Credit Corp. Some 90% of the cotton goods is being exported...