Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because several delegations were giving a beautiful imitation of Alphonse & Gaston-holding out their own bids & asks until they saw the other fellow's schedules. But, most awkwardly, the opening snarl reminded everybody of the ubiquitous bilateralism that Geneva was supposed to suppress-in favor of freer multilateral trade in a world atmosphere of multilateral confidence...
...sold to the world. Dr. J. E. Holloway, head of the delegation from the Union of South Africa, was hopeful but skeptical. Said he: "[America] will, I hope, forgive us some little anxiety. She stands at the crossroads where her traditional antipathy to the free flow of international trade diverges from her new role as world leader. She seems to stand there in vacillating acceptance of her eminent and high destiny. The U.S. is in a strategic position to lead the world into the calm meadows of economic peace and prosperity...
...traveled all over the country meeting people and making friends. He went to Hollywood, loved the girls, won the hearts of Hollywood's party-lovers. They called him "Mike." Aléman today wears suits made by Oviatt's of Beverly Hills, tailor to the movie trade...
Lewis Douglas, in London less than six weeks as the new U.S. Ambassador, had already started a trade war. Hearing somehow that His Excellency likes to bike, 60 British manufacturers immediately tangled sprockets over who should present him with a custom-built British wheel. While they were debating the matter, a Yankee outfit (Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch) air-expressed Douglas an American bike. His diplomatic decision: "I'll find it hard to ride two bikes at once, but I shall receive both gratefully...
...Other Love (Enterprise; United Artists) bounces a few echoes-but very faint ones-off Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Its heroine (Barbara Stanwyck), a great pianist exhausted by her trade, comes to a Swiss sanitarium for a rest. Her doctor (David Niven) decides not to tell her that she is far gone in tuberculosis. Slowly, she realizes that he is lying to her. Then she begins to doubt that his lavish charm and his protestations of love are better than so much calculated therapeutic blarney...