Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain. The Assembly resolution, approved 34-to-6, recommends that U.N. Ambassadors and Ministers should be withdrawn from Madrid, and bars Spain from all U.N. organizations, but otherwise leaves trade and diplomatic relations as before. In effect, this was a postponement of tne Spanish issue for future action...
...Kremlin also wanted a Foreign Minister who is relatively well known abroad, especially in the U.S. Anastas Mikoyan, the slick little Armenian who long ran Soviet foreign trade, fills that bill. Eric Johnston called him "a Jesse Jones, a Donald Nelson and a Harry Hopkins rolled into...
...that better men could be attracted to provide finer education for those seeking it--would be negated by the fact that comparatively few could afford to go beyond secondary school. This was the case during the 1930's and the higher tuition advocates would see history repeat if the trade cycle dropped sharply...
...advertising, and to what degree to U.S. book clubs. The clubs' tremendous sales machines, oiled with the prestigious praise of people like Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, were built to sell literary goods whether they were silk purses or sows' ears. In the marts of trade, if not of letters, 20 or 30 book clubs were in bustling operation, and the top two-Book-of-the-Month and its tawdrier sister, Literary Guild-together claimed nearly 2,250,000 "members," i.e., consistent buyers of wares. Among 1946's newest sales organizations: the Family Reading Club-"will...
...echoed loud through the year's biography and history, though marketwise publishers insisted that readers were sick & tired of the war. In nonfiction, the Civil War was still the favorite battleground of the antiquarians-and the prospective horrors of World War III was the stock in trade of most special pleaders, who now blatantly showed the name of the only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them Joseph Dorfman's two-volume...