Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
...Martin approved the bipartisan foreign policy of Vandenberg. But Taft had voted against many of the instruments of that policy: the World Bank and the World Fund, reciprocal trade agreements, the British loan. The continuation of such national policies could crack open and vitiate U.S. foreign policy...
Modeled in some ways on the prewar reciprocal trade pacts, the treaty provided for free & equal trade on a most-favored-nation basis. It contained some specific safeguards for American investment, but not at the expense of the Chinese nation or people. Besides furnishing a much-needed business blueprint, the conclusion of the pact was a peacetime implementation of a primary U.S. war thesis: that China is a big power now, and deserves to be treated as such. U.S. business naturally hoped that China would soon begin to behave like a grownup...
Executive Editor Dimitman, no crusader, but a sharp news vendor, emerged from the purge stronger than ever. Until last week, Field and the editorial writers had charted Sun policy. Now two of the five editorialists are gone, and the new board will do the navigating. Dimitman, who learned his trade under the late Moe (Daily Racing Form) Annenberg on the Philadelphia Inquirer, is on the board...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...