Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
Last week, as the two men sat down together again, it looked as if Perón had begun to take some of the ambassador's advice. The government had just announced that trade debts to U.S. banks, once over $300 million, had been cut to half that figure, would henceforth be systematically reduced by applying against the debt one-fifth of the dollars the U.S. pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going...
Rival from Brooklyn. Even Trainer Jones performs no feeding or training miracles with second-rate horses. Quick to spot the no-goods, he loses no time unloading them. His pet phrase: "Trade'm away for a dog and then shoot...
...quarter of 1948 in the sharpest drop since the war. Still, the pace was $1 billion ahead of the average for 1948, biggest year on record. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing employment fell by 330,000 between mid-March and mid-April. But seasonal increases in trade and construction offset the loss, and the three-month decline in overall nonagricultural employment had stopped at 43,900,000, about 400,000 below April...
...Saloon Trade. Gump's got its Oriental flavor by an act of God. The store was founded during the Civil War by Solomon Gump, son of a Heidelberg linen merchant, who found gaudy, gold-crazy San Francisco too exciting to leave. He began making mirrors for saloons, and thanks to frequent gunplay, got plenty of profitable repeat business. He branched out and began furnishing the homes of California's new millionaires with Victorian-era "art treasures" from Europe...