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Word: tradings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There, Man. One big trouble: Britain was falling down badly when it came to salesmanship. It was easy to arrange a trade fair-however dazzling-and wait for buyers to show up. The British might have done better if, in addition to holding their fair, they had sent an army of hard-hitting salesmen to invade the U.S. Many fine old British industries, such as pottery and cutlery, which do a steady but limited trade with the U.S., often have no sales program; they merely wait for orders. Other enterprises send salesmen abroad who do not know their way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westward Ho! for $ $ $ | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Worst of all, British industry fails to produce the kind of goods that are most likely to sell in the U.S. "If we in Britain," mused one imaginative Board of Trade official last week, "were to grasp the principle of selling the Americans something they haven't got and won't bother to make under their mass-production methods, there's market enough to bridge the dollar gap, and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westward Ho! for $ $ $ | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...taxes they bear to maintain Socialist Britain's welfare program, and that old devil, the U.S. tariff. Some Americans, among them ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman (TIME, April 11), hold that this complaint has a sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share of the dollar market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westward Ho! for $ $ $ | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Gripes in B.A. As Argentina's postwar trade boom slowed down (so far this year, exports are about one-third of 1948's), Dodero complained that the government's state-trading policies were at fault. Despite their long friendship, Perón paid him no heed. Instead, he made him a take-itor-leave-it offer to sell out to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Abdication of a Tycoon | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus. "It's a different kind of trade," he cheerfully concluded. "Can't expect t'understand it if yer know nauwt about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yorkshire Pudding | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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