Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty places were set for breakfast in the seventh-floor dining room of Washington's big white Federal Trade Commission Building. Just before 8 a.m., the guests arrived...
...London last week, the seemingly incredible happened. With hardly a mussed hair, a United Nations conference of 17 countries, this time on foreign trade, came to an end with a tentative agreement on the basic policies for a world trade charter. In general, the charter, preparatory to a full-dress conference later, followed the broad lines suggested...
...effect, the other nations gave the U.S., and the incoming Republicans, until next summer, when U.N. will discuss specific tariff cuts, to prove that the U.S. can and will 1) maintain a reasonably stable economy and 2) practice to the fullest the free trade it preaches. In turn, the U.S. hopes that by then nations which are either wholly or in part state traders, e.g., Russia, which did not attend the conference, and Britain (see Commodities), can somehow reconcile their ideas with those...
...Knuckle Talk. But no one, least of all U.S. businessmen, thought that the job the U.S. had set out to do was a small one. Talk of how to do it, like exports, was at an all-time high. In Manhattan alone there were over 40 speeches on foreign trade in the last fortnight. Probably the most brass-knuckled talk was that of William E. Knox, 45, world-minded president of Westinghouse Electric International Co. Said he to Manhattan exporters...
...Foreign trade,' in the present postwar world, has no relation to real foreign trade. . . . The nation is shipping abroad materials of all kinds, but we are receiving promises to pay and very little else from debtors whose ability to pay is questionable. Calling this trade is to perpetuate a myth. Trade consists in swapping something you have for something you want. We must supply capital goods . . . technical assistance and know-how to other nations to help them help themselves, and to strengthen their economies." (Westinghouse is now doing this by selling plans and know-how to China...