Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices are still well above prewar prices. Fur men, however, could not quite believe what seemed to be happening in their $500,000,000 industry. They looked around for hidden villains, seemed to think price-cutting the cause of their troubles rather than the result. Said the Fur Trade Review: "We cannot help but wonder whether [stores] have exercised the best wisdom in cutting prices...
...International Monetary Fund last week took its first solid step toward providing a stabilized basis for world trade. It fixed the currency values of 32 member nations at existing exchange rates (in terms of U.S. dollars or gold). Notably, this step was taken with no fuss; cutthroat currency manipulations, which many economists had feared as a preliminary, did not happen...
...Cannot Stop Her." In Amsterdam, 9,900 miles away, Dutchmen could not bring themselves to accept so pessimistic a view, which would spell catastrophe for their country. Said Pieter de Jong, a middle-of-the-road Dutch businessman: "We've already lost our trade with Germany. If we lose Indonesia too, The Netherlands will become one of the poorest countries on the Continent. If Indonesia really wants complete freedom, we are not going to stop her and we cannot stop her. But we Netherlanders sincerely hope the Indonesians have some common sense left. If we move out, the Indonesians...
...President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile will meet in the shadow of the Christ of the Andes, which was erected in 1904 to mark the peaceful solution of their boundary dispute. There they will sign a newer and more practical symbol of amity: the $175,000,000 trade agreement between Argentina and Chile completed last week in Buenos Aires...
...sought Cordillera Libre, a sort of limited trans-Andean customs union,* was established. Argentina agreed to lend Chile $175,000,000-$75 million for improving Chile's rail, road and sea links with Argentina, $75 million for Chilean industrial development, the rest for a revolving credit to get trade started...