Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry got down to the point. Was there any reason why the Senate couldn't wind up its affairs in another month? Lucas read off a list of the measures still facing the Senate: $14.9 billion worth of appropriations, reciprocal trade, MAP, a farm bill. If the Senate could dispose of all that within a month, said Lucas, "I will eat a hat from any one of the stores in the Senator's city of Omaha, Nebraska...
Prime Minister Attlee was expected to launch the retrenchment policy next week at the convention of the powerful British Trades Union Congress at Bridlington. Last week he ordered all government bureaus to prepare estimates for a 5% cut in expenditures; if this economy could be carried through it would lop $600 million from the nation's $12 billion budget. Board of Trade President Harold Wilson ordered a 5% slash in some retail textile and footwear prices; this might ease workers' pressure for wage increases...
Forty Percent? The big guns of the T.U.C., led by burly Chairman Sir William Lawther, wheeled up to support retrenchment. Trade union leaders prepared a report and a resolution which served up some bitter medicine for the rank & file (8,000,000 strong), who have been pressing for higher pay and other benefits. Salient points...
...thousand international "partisans of peace" descended on Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Trade Unions) last week. Before a red plush backdrop bearing giant portraits of Lenin and Stalin, they acted out a Kremlin command performance of a familiar comedy...
...almost two decades as mayor, Adenauer proved a vigorous, progressive, highly popular administrator. He helped found Cologne's university, promoted the revival of an annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth...