Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Taft Committee came an expert witness: 56-year-old Dr. Leo Wolman, professor of economics at Columbia University, onetime adviser to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a longtime student of trade unionism whose practical and independent views have caused labor to damn him more than once. What kind of a future did Wolman see under present labor laws...
Italian Communists mustered an 18.9% popular vote at the last elections, have only 104 of 556 seats in the Assembly. Their strength lies in the fact that (in alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party) they control Italy's federation of trade unions, the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro. The Confederazione's Communist Secretary-General Giuseppe di Vittorio, a wiry, steel-jawed veteran of Spain's International Brigade, wields the vast strike power of the Confederazione's six million workers...
...neglected by the Japanese invader. In the hour of victory, starving people in such Fukien province ports as Amoy lay down to die in coffins waiting for them in the streets. But now overseas Chinese are again sending money from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to rehabilitate the coastal trade, and on the Chinese New Year nearly every Amoy citizen boasted the traditional (but in recent years unobtainable) new suit or dress. Inland, such cities as Hengyang and Changsha, once 98% destroyed, are 30% rebuilt. Pot-holed Canton streets are being repaired, and are expected to be shipshape in three...
Building for two World Wars had firmly buttressed Canada's agricultural economy with heavy industries. As a result, Trade Minister James MacKinnon proudly reported last week, Canada exported (mostly to the U.S. and Britain) a whopping $2,312,000,000 in 1946. The total is a new peacetime record and more than 2½ times the 1935-39 average...
...clothes that a visit there almost automatically lands a woman in Winchell's column. Actually, Lane Bryant, Inc., which has 22 other retail shops and a big mail-order plant to boot, does 95% of its $41 million annual business in non-maternity wear. Its chief stock-in-trade is the legitimate offspring of its maternity wear: clothes for fat women...