Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are some of the occupational hazards of our trade, and we expect them. The head of our Boston office, however, seems to have more than his share of them. Recently, in the course of a week's work, he submitted to a sampling of twelve-year-old cheese, tasted a "health" beverage (turnip juice, elderberries and soybeans) brought in by an elderly artist, promised to try a new kind of bread made from orange peelings by a Russian inventor. Says he: "There is a distinct gastronomic hazard in this work. But I know of no other...
...Lucius Boomer's spacious Waldorf-Astoria apartment Molotov compromised on Trieste and conceded the principle of free trade on the Danube. That was intimately related to such apparently unrelated domestic problems as the Russian housing shortage (the world's worst) which confines most Russians to dwelling space of less than 7 by 7 ft. each...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...
This can best be done, said he, not by overall policies laid down by the Federal Government alone and "sold" to exporters as to foreign countries, but by an American Board of Foreign Trade set up by Congress, with representatives of both industry and Government drafting U.S. trade policies and the means to implement them. Only by speeding up the flow of imports to pay for U.S. exports can "we talk about foreign trade honestly and without using quotation marks . . . find a way to be paid in some other form than with more I.O.U.s...
Brass-Knuckle Facts. Thanks to the volume of U.S. exports, greatest in history, foreign trade was indeed getting towards the I.O.U. stage. Exports, up some 300% over prewar, are now at a rate of $10 billion yearly, while imports, though double prewar, are still lagging at $4.6 billions. This top-heavy unbalance has reduced gold and dollar reserves of foreign nations from $17 billion in 1944 to $6.4 as of last June. Warned Electric Bond & Share's board chairman, Curtis E. Calder in Knox-like tones: unless the U.S. drastically increases its overall imports, the "gap will be filled...