Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect on trade with the U.S. is already noticeable. To husband its dollars, each country has clapped on stiff import controls. Chile's Foreign Exchange Control Board, for instance, has decreed that only essential items, such as machinery for new industry, can get import permits. By such close-to-the-vest trade, Chile hopes to offset her $100,000,000 deficit...
...baring his economic fangs to the extent of a four month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted...
Small merchants lost trade; florists found that people who could not read about deaths or weddings did not send flowers. A cinema hired a sound-truck to hawk its shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...
...lady golfer in a threesome with a minister. After they were married, they kept on golfing together. On the fourth tee at Brentwood one day, the Babe hit a terrific drive down the fairway. Then George, just a plain country golfer, went through some of the contortions of his trade-flying mare, airplane spin, body-twist-and hit the ball about three yards farther than the Babe. Said Babe: "I always said I could fall in love with a man strong enough to outdrive...
They had been arrested and deported as "anti-Soviet elements" on any of a hundred charges-as troublemakers, trade unionists, aristocrats, speculators, intellectuals. Doubtless for some of them it was a form of justice: the Polish Republic of the 1930s had had its share of dictators, spies and stooges. But Soviet arrests were Byzantine in size...