Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-controlled General Confederation of Italian Labor called a general strike in protest against the Sicilian "massacre." In most cities, the strike lasted only a few hours. Nevertheless, it was a grim reminder that the Communists, through their control of Italy's trade unions, have the country's economic life by the throat. Before 50,000 workers at Rome's Basilica of Constantine, Communist Labor Leader Nazzareno Buschi cried: "The workers do not want civil war, but our enemies, and above all, the Government, must be warned...
...glittering assembly of 35 white-uniformed Nepalese generals, His Highness, the Maharaja Padma Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander in Chief of Nepal, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite, President Truman's personal representative, were signing exchange notes which established U.S. diplomatic relations and opened trade. Their watches carefully synchronized, the 73-year-old Maharaja and his aides watched the seconds tick by. The Maharaja had previously consulted the Nepalese high priests who, after studying horoscopes, informed His Highness that the most auspicious time for signing was exactly 2:31 o'clock...
...balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting possible sites for hydroelectric power, furnishing some machinery for mills in the Nepal lowlands. They also talked about a project for a high-class tourist trade for tiger hunting...
Gonzÿlez' separation from the Commies will not solve all his problems. He must still 1) find an acceptable substitute for the vetoed Farm Bill; 2) settle the still unratified trade treaty with Argentina which the Communists favored while they were in the Cabinet; 3) wangle more loans from Washington, where his anti-Communist stand will do no harm...
...columnist was tattling on his trade. "Standard practice," he wrote, "is to correct a wrong like 'Joe Blow is a crook' by printing, as many days later as is safe, something that goes 'Don't believe those things you hear about Joe Blow...