Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When FAO's food-board commission met in Washington, Dodd had to eat his words in public, by conforming to the State Department view that control of food (along with other commodities) should be vested in the broader-based, less restrictive International Trade Organization now being established. The fact that Britain's delegate, Harold Wilson, also rejected the Orr plan (though for different reasons) did not remove a widespread impression in London of U.S. irresponsibility...
...between two secret sessions of Parliament-the first since 1918's dark days. Parliament decided that Austria, squeezed in the quadripartite grip of the Big Four and teetering on the verge of chaos, would seek a quick treaty and a quick end to occupation. Also: 1) removal of trade barriers; 2) restoration of Austrian gold as a currency cover; 3) return of war prisoners; 4) recognition of property owned by Austria in 1938 as still Austrian-owned; 5) membership...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...armed services, VIP means "very important person." It means the same thing to Manhattan's VIP Service, Inc., run by a fast-talking ex-Navy officer, William Jeremiah Murphy, and his wife Charlotte Morgan, both 32. Principal stock-in-trade of VIP: red carpeting for the VIPs of U.S. business. By last week, exactly one year after VIP Service was started, Bill Murphy was on his way to becoming a VIP himself. His service was rolling out red carpet at the rate of $100,000 a year...
...office grosses for the last couple of months were about 8% higher than a year ago. This did not necessarily mean that more people were going to the movies. Admission prices had also gone up about 8% (from an average 42½? to 46?). But, said the trade sheet Variety: "Biz remains terrific, no matter how you look...