Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make news. Congress, he said, could adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press for a lot of his legislation this term. There were only three "must" bills, he added cheerfully-extension of the reciprocal trade program, the North Atlantic pact, and repeal of Taft-Hartley. The President was "definitely satisfied," he indicated...
...West suspected that the point was economic. The Allied counter-blockade had hurt Russian-controlled East Germany and East Europe more than the Soviet blockade of Berlin had hurt the West. Therefore Moscow wanted to resume trade between Eastern and Western zones...
...hardly fair to blame the failure on the plan itself. The NSA's idea--to persuade selected stores to grant discounts to student card-holders in return for the resulting increase in trade--is an ingenious answer to the high cost of learning. It was tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...
...completed with getting the System organized. Partly as a result of the poor publicity only about 550 students bought cards, a pitifully small number in a University of 12,000. Some of the contracted stores are already complaining that their discount has not brought in enough trade to pay for itself...
Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco has tried, with some handsome lighting and photography, to give Street the look of an important film. Actually, like most movies designed for the matinee trade, it is- little more than a carefully contrived balance sheet of petty emotional expenses...