Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have not met one who wouldn't trade his enforced leisure for the chance to sweat at an honest job without the fear of losing what remains of his life...
...addresses of our 418 pre-war French subscribers. Our Paris office augmented this list with candidates chosen from pages torn out of directories, telephone books, Who's Who (prewar edition), from lists of Government officials, doctors, lawyers, university professors and other professionals, businessmen (especially those engaged in foreign trade), teachers of English, etc. To decipher and cull these lists, remove duplications, get the correct addresses and salutations, we hired five French girls who knew their France...
...passed when we can fool around with the OPA and price controls. Once the meat pipelines are filled, I can then declare that meat is no longer in short supply and we can have the controls taken off and meat will continue to flow into the channels of trade. That's the quick and reasonable way to end the meat crisis, and I'm confident that that's what will happen...
Then, paternally, he said: "... It would certainly be an error ... for us to plunge into a program of promises and bribes," but "these are some of our objectives: to defend and develop empire trade ... to promote all measures to improve the health and social conditions of the people ... to support as a general rule free enterprise and initiative against state trading and nationalization of industries." Quickly changing the subject, he bitterly assailed the Labor Government with vacillating in Palestine, leaving India's "helpless millions" under "what new power...
...Churchill always speaks either extemporaneously or from very full notes. His last experience at speaking from half notes occurred many years ago in a House of Commons debate on a Trade Disputes Act. He recounts it as a warning to young public speakers: "I reached my resounding peroration with the words, 'So, it only remains for those who-.' I peered at my notes, only to discover that I had failed to write down who they were and what it remained for them to do. In the hope that necessity would mother invention, I repeated with great emphasis...