Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handled 80% of the nation's exports of cotton, coffee and oil. On Colombia's Pacific side, filthy, swampy Buenaventura (literally, good luck) had made good its name: the outlet for the booming western industrial regions, Buenaventura accounted for almost half of Colombia's entire foreign trade...
...Canadian exports for the year, primed by nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of loans to foreign countries (much of it for purchases in Canada), hit a record peacetime high : $2,300,000,000. So did imports, at $1,900,000,000. The bulk of the trade was with the U.S. Canada entertained 20,000,000 U.S. tourists who spent $200,000,000 (up $40,000,000 from the year before). In 1946, some 418,000,000 bushels of grain from Canada's lush wheatland, some 1,250,000,000 lbs. of fish from her coasts, plus vast amounts...
...crossbar pattern woven by San Francisco's Designer Dorothy Liebes. She wove her winner with cotton, mohair and rayon. In other designs, she sometimes blends silk, bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee's new 2O4-passenger airplanes...
Beginning his new strip, Caniff was confident and cool: "It's almost a mathematical equation," he said. "If I don't know my trade by now, I'd better quit...
...wanted to make its ideas of free trade work, it had to devise ways to make them work. In 1947, 17 members of the United Nations will try to lay down final rules for world trade, on a basis already proposed by the U.S. But all who approved U.S. free-trade ideas, in principle, kept their fingers crossed, in fact. They had been frightened by the gyrations of the U.S. economy in 1946. They agreed to go along only if the U.S. could prove, by stabilizing its own economy during 1947, that free enterprise was a going concern...