Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meddling - Messersmith conceives it his duty to do all he can to get the Perón Government over its sentimental attachment to Axis nationals and Axis business firms. Beyond that, as a sympathetic friend of U.S. businessmen, he has the good diplomat's interest in furthering foreign trade...
Roll Call. In Brazil, after ten years of repression, the Communists, with an estimated 150,000 members, were able in last December's election to poll 600,000 of a total 5,000,000 votes. In Argentina, their 120,000-strong party recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they...
Venezuela was a fair example. There Acción Democrática, now in power, had outorganized the Communists politically and in the trade unions. Soviet representatives, keenly interested in Venezuela's million-barrel daily oil production, had used their influence over the Embassy luncheon table to induce the leaders of the three feeble Communist groups to unite. But even when merged, these drew only 51,000 votes in last month's election...
...seven emeralds, but she loved it, and to the woman who had found it on the opera-house floor Mrs. Kavanaugh gave $250. While reporters and photographers watched closely, the loser, in a Norwegian fox jacket and pearls, and the finder, in something modest in black, made the trade. The finder, who used to be a cook, guessed she would buy a new coat and a few other things...
...Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...