Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia has not yet agreed to attend. The most important of the 17, from a world trade point of view: Canada, Great Britain...
...Trade Agreements Act does not expire until 1948, but it is not inviolate. It could be crippled. G.O.P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met behind closed doors last week, listened to both management and labor plead for protection, then planned their strategy. One objective was to force a postponement of the Geneva conference until Congress could investigate the whole program...
...Canadian loans "only give us a short breathing space." The country was "still running into debt Abroad." In 1946 its imports exceeded exports by $1,312,000,000. Its manpower shortage was grave: 500,000 to 700,000 more workers were needed in export industries if the trade balance was to be attained...
Down: Dollars & Exports. Last week the results of some "follies" were officially recognized. Austere Sir Stafford Cripps's Board of Trade confirmed that the bulk of Britain's exports have been going to nations inside the sterling bloc. The balance of payments with "hard money" countries (the U.S., Canada, Switzerland) is more unfavorable than was calculated a year ago. The hard fact is that Britain has sold too little in the "hard money" markets (only about 14% of her exports), while buying heavily (about half of her imports) in those markets. A sore point in her U.S. buying...
...Mexico, the Communists kept a tight grip on the trade union movement through Vincente Lombardo Toledano, who, as head of the C.T.A.L. (see below), is a powerful figure throughout Latin...