Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faith. The temperature of The Crisis patient was charted in Britain's dwindling dollar holdings and in her trade balance (TIME, Feb. 3). Britons asked themselves if a Government which had bet wrong on a shortage in coal might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
Stephen M. Scheme '50, chairman of the United Nations Council, will represent that group today before a State Department hearing which is taking testimony on the proposed International Trade Organization Charter...
Representing the only collegiate organization to testify before the committee, Schwebel will testify that his organization urges even greater power for the ITO than already is planned. The stated purpose of the proposed charter is to expand world trade by raising trade barriers and other distributes on international trade...
...Kept a tight grip on the trade union movement in Mexico, held most of the important posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor...
Into Boston harbor last week came 29 trawlers jampacked with two million pounds of fish for the Lenten trade. But when the fish was put up for sale in the smoke-filled Fish Exchange, only 118,000 lbs. were sold. It was not for lack of bidders. As auctioneers went through their babble ("Haddock on the Maine . . . I'm offered seven . . . seventy-five . . . seven-eighty . . .all done? . . . all done"), haddock finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union...