Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those responsible for American foreign policy is that capitalism in other countries of the world is either dead or dying, that it cannot be revived, and that the peoples of the world will not be won for an American imperialist rule more interested in a favorable balance of trade than in the welfare of the impoverished masses...
...pace of work had begun to tell on other Ministers. John Strachey (Food) had been down with flu. Sir Stafford Cripps (Trade) had been out with a chill. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was nursing his high blood pressure. At a cocktail party a friend told him that he looked well. Said Bevin: "I feel worse than I look." Clem Attlee, an early riser, toiled to the Churchillian hour of 2:30 a.m. to handle the extra work...
Last week Premier T. V. Soong attempted to help the export trade by establishing a separate exchange rate for it, similar to a separate rate uneventfully set up a few weeks ago for remittances by overseas Chinese. Unfortunately, in announcing the new export rate, Soong used the words "export subsidy." Shanghai businessmen are aware that U.S. law permits the imposition of countervailing tariffs on goods sent to the U.S. under export subsidies by foreign governments. Shanghai believed that the U.S. Consulate had announced that it would invoke the countervailing machinery against Soong's subsidies. Some Chinese drew from that...
...Tejicondor. The Medellin tobacco industry is a monopoly. In Medellin, far from the Magdalena, a new skyscraper is going up to house the Antioquian company that dominates Magdalena River shipping. Most of Colombia's investments in gold, all in oil and steel, the bulk of the coffee trade have their homes in Medellin...
...cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches and poetry, but which can be sutured only with trade and industry. And then undoubtedly we will draw in Peru, before inquiring into possibilities further south. Half a continent will not be too much elbow room for us." Argentines might be annoyed to know it, but Medellinenses do not take too seriously President Juan Peron's dream of dominating South...