Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th Congress will re-examine the reciprocal trade program created by Cordell Hull; Nebraska's high-tariff Senator Hugh Butler has written Assistant Secretary of State Clayton asking him to postpone trade negotiations with 18 nations. Republican Congressmen would like to scrutinize some 3,000 pending trade agreement items before any agreements are made under the blanket authority delegated by Democratic Congresses to the President...
Last February, Joe Curran was sold a bill of goods. The name of the goods: the Committee for Maritime Unity. From a trade-union point of view the idea seemed fine; C.M.U. would be the united front of all maritime and longshoremen unions. Ham-handed Joe Curran took his big East Coast National Maritime Union into the group, lined it up with five other much smaller seamen's unions and Harry Bridges' big West Coast International Longshoremen...
Curran and Bridges were cochairmen. United, they won substantial wage gains. Big Joe was happy-but he was also uneasy. The reason for his uneasiness was that the top layer of C.M.U.'s officialdom was dominated by Communist party-liners, and in the midst of trade-union victory they were playing their own game, as slow-thinking Joe Curran slowly found...
...Stafford Cripps, austere president of the Board of Trade, was the prospective recipient of a somewhat pointed Christmas present. In London, one Desmond Leslie had read of the woman who wrote Sir Stafford telling him where he could buy bed sheets (TIME, Dec. 9). So he offered Sir Stafford "something I feel would be much more in your line"-an Indian bed of nails (a present to Leslie from a fakir...
Champion crowd-puller of the year, reported U.S. movie exhibitors (polled by the trade's Motion Picture Herald), was 42-year-old Bing Crosby - as he was the year before and the year before that...