Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government decided to maintain its armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece, Palestine and elsewhere, and to cut her Army to the bone. The Times of London replied: "A nation which lives by overseas trade and which, however grievous its present distress, yet possesses and controls much that is enviable cannot afford remedies of this kind...
...Trud, the trade-union paper, he found a young shoe-factory foreman named Vassily Matrosov being praised to the Red skies for the "amazing" changes by which he had boosted output. To hear Trud tell it, Comrade Matrosov was a combination Bedaux, Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in a straight-faced cable, Middleton described Matrosov's amazing changes. The foreman "found that much of a cutter's time was lost in carrying leather to the cutting machine. ... He figured out that this could be done by an auxiliary worker. . . ." Also the "needle-witted Mr. Matrosov" had noticed...
...carefully spelled out the Catholic answer for such diverse occupational groups as doctors and policemen (TIME, June 3). In the current issue of his university's magazine for the priesthood, the American Ecclesiastical Review, Father Connell addresses himself to C.I.O. President Philip Murray and other good Catholic trade unionists. The question: When Is a Strike Lawful? Some Connell answers...
...this price, Gimbels sold $3.85 pens so fast that it soon ran out, started dealing off new-model $1.69 and $2.69 Reynolds pens at the same bargain price. This disturbed Milton Reynolds so much that he threatened to sue Gimbels under the Fair Trade Act unless the store stopped price-cutting the new models...
...Ruggedly individualistic Michigan farmers had a scunner against the monopoly-like Michigan Milk Producers' Association, through which they sold their milk to Detroit's dairies-Resentful of the Association's sometimes high-handed methods and always complicated formula for buying milk, the farmers were glad to trade $75,000 for one-year promissory notes to help G.I.s. A $75,000 mortgage on the plant and 39 bank-financed jeeps completed the organization; the Servicemen's Dairy Cooperative Association was ready for business...