Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...focus of public attention might help improve the situation further; but mining would remain the most dangerous trade a man could follow. The point was that last week John Lewis-a man who has spoken much but done little about mine safety-was using the hard lot and misfortunes of his miners to wreak revenge on a Government which had dared bring...
Western Arithmetic. These are some of the more bizarre symptoms of what ails world trade. This week in Geneva, the representatives of 18 nations* will meet, chiefly to hear what the U.S. thinks can be done...
...return, the U.S. wanted a general relaxation of all the trade restrictions thought up by nervous economic planners to make their economics more "secure." And the U.S. wanted the new rules for "freer" world trade written into the Charter of an International Trade Organization (I.T.O.), to act as umpire hereafter...
...return concessions were the rub. People all over the world now believe that governments are responsible for a lot of things-even down to the corners of a beer-bottle label-that used to be none of a government's business. The program for "freer" world trade ran smack into the program for "secure" economic systems...
...five more to the government. Among these it urges a vigorous mutual criticism among the elements of the press and an increase in the effectiveness and independence of its staff (for example, by extending such programs as the Harvard Nieman fellowships). Since monopolistic tendencies involving newsprint, news services, and trade antagonism make increasingly difficult the founding of new newspapers, the government should enter the picture in a limited capacity. Anti-trust laws must be used to ensure real competition. The present libel laws must be made more effective in protecting persons injured by false statements. Going further, the government should...