Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tickets and posters with three phones jangling at once and someone upstairs impatiently ringing the bell at the booth. There are notices outside proclaiming the glorious fact that the Brattle Hall Theatre is sold out every night. And the hardest part of the job is not drumming up trade but conciliating ticket buyers who procrastinated too long to get the seats they wanted. To turn out a play each and every week requires considerable manipulation on the part of the producer, the actors and actresses, and the property men. From 9:30 in the morning until midnight the typical Brattle...
Logs are rolling again in Washington as industrial and agricultural groups, together with their Congressional alter egos swathed in the philosophy of Hawley-Smoot, take pot shots at the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act in general and prospective import duty rate reductions in particular. The Committee for Reciprocal Information has been informed that "lowered import duties constitute a threat to American industry, agriculture, and defense," and Senator Butler, Republican of Nebraska, has revealed that the reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock...
Reciprocal trade agreements have meant concessions to as well as from the United States. That these foreign concessions have been substantial is indicated, at least partly, by the fact that the value of our exports is now roughly double that of our imports...
...crux of the matter is that the American woolen industry and any other American business is prosperous when business conditions at home are good--and then only. America must rid itself of its surplus production through foreign trade if it is to prosper. And America can export only if it accepts imports of approximate value as repayment. Through the medium of the reciprocal trade agreements, the gradual attainment of these conditions has been made possible. The best interests of the nation will be served if the trend continues toward and not away from tariff reductions...
...blind Godfrey Mowatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative on the Council of Healing, and said to be gifted with the power to cure by laying on of hands). And recently lona has organized a Christian Workers League, whose members seek to work on the corporate bodies of trade unions, capturing control of them with the same infiltration tactics used by the Communists...