Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual poll taken by Film Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...
Last week Beria was back in Moscow, but his subordinate leaders were determined that they-and not the 450,000 people in Berlin's trade unions, nor the U.S., British and French representatives in the four-power Berlin Kommandatura -should decide the make-up of the union congress executive committee. When the Western Allies opposed an obviously rigged election plan, Soviet Major General Alexander Kotikov (an entomologist in civil-life) attacked them, in the Soviet licensed German-language press...
...Behind this trade-union fight was a very simple fact: embittered by early .Soviet Army excesses, Russian reparation removals, and more recent deportation of labor, the German working class has become increasingly anti-Russian. The Russians are striving to maintain at all costs Communist-sponsored political leadership of the trade-union movement against the will of the majority of the membership...
...city that prides itself justifiably on its educational facilities, industry, and world trade to be so journalistically warped and barren seems paradoxical. What accurate and adequate coverage manages to penetrate the formidable perimeter must come from the New York papers and the Christian Science Monitor, a sectarian newspaper with a minute 15,900 copies distributed locally...
Augustus B. Longstreet (Georgia Scenes) on hoss-swapping in the 1830s ("Why, man, do you bring such a hoss as that to trade? . . . Well, anyhow, let me look at him. Maybe he'll do to plow...