Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government knows that more & more restriction is not the answer to its trade problem. On April 8, when Britain sits down at Geneva with the U.S. and 16 other nations to talk tariffs, the British are prepared to make an act of faith. They may surprise other delegates by offering to abandon a big part of the Empire preference system in return for tariff concessions in the hard-money countries, particularly...
Reasons for Hope. But in the long run, the British trade position depended on whether Britons can overcome industrial production difficulties at home. Last week John Osborne, TIME'S London bureau chief, set himself, his staff and his correspondents in the provinces to the task of finding Britain's essential strengths and its valid hopes of survival and recovery. Osborne reported...
...Liberation. The shops were full of goods, 1946 American cars rolled through the streets, multicolored neon lights made Brussels one of Europe's few gay capitals. By permitting a rich flow of imports, cutting prices 10%, keeping wages down and boosting taxes, the Government had licked inflation. But trade was stagnating. Wailed Catholic Opposition Leader Frans van Cauwelaert: "We have wasted our chances, we have squandered our resources. For too long now we have gobbled down the compliments of visiting foreigners, telling us how well off we are compared to other European nations...
...seated, thus assuring the Guachallistas of at least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join his Government and help him deal with such pressing matters as a new tin miners' strike, an Argentine proposal for a trade treaty like the one Peron made with Chile (TIME, Dec. 23) and a flood in tropical Beni province (where alligators had chased the flood victims into the tree tops...
...double-crossed" Russia while she was still a wartime ally by giving super-explosives to the U.S. but withholding them from Russia. Now Canada was going aggressively "imperialist" as a "junior partner" of the U.S. The party would fight this policy and would look for support to the trade-union movement and the "politically conscious forces in French Canada." These bucko words were more exaggerated than usual. The Reds did have potent cells or control in many a Canadian union, e.g., the International Woodworkers of America, and the Canadian Fishermen's Union (TIME, Jan. 13). But anti-Red movements...