Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union. Although the C.D.U. was the direct descendant of the former Center party, there was a big difference. The Center had been almost entirely Roman Catholic; the C.D.U. broadened its base to include Protestant elements. A somewhat unwieldy conglomeration of religious groups, of Ruhr industrialists and Christian trade unionists, the C.D.U. owes its political effectiveness to Adenauer. Dignified and charming in a stately sort of way, he smoothed party crises with the silk-gloved infighting tactics he had used with his city council in Cologne. Political friends and enemies alike call...
Gulval, near Penzance, the Worshipful Company of Mead Makers paraded to the Gulval parish church, where a cup of mead was solemnly blessed. The mead had previously received the blessing of the British Board of Trade, which in its own quaint way hopes that mead exports will help earn a few of the dollars Britain needs (see INTERNATIONAL...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the hair of both twins had been styled and set by a professional hairdresser, after one had given herself a home wave. Chicago's Toni Co., maker of home permanent wave kits, will restyle its advertising...
...Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last week stopped and stared. Nestled between a shiny red cultivator and a new Ford tractor was a stock and grain brokerage office. A Trans-Lux projector flashed ticker tape reports from the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago's Board of Trade; two salesmen chalked up stock quotations and commodity prices on a big blackboard...
...before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...