Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speedy military success forces him to start fulfilling his promises. To control the heavily populated and industrial South, he has had to shift his attention from rural areas to the immensely more difficult task of governing cities and running trade and industry...
...headquarters for the Occupation Army's First Corps, the Americans have also launched a program to educate adults-a 19-lesson course, with films, lectures and discussion groups. It meets for two hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
...almost by birthright. His father, Luis Muñoz Rivera, often called Puerto Rico's George Washington, headed the colonial government in the latter days of the Spanish rule, and in 1897 obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later became the island's Resident Commissioner...
Fair: Poor. The first postwar German trade fair in the U.S., sponsored by the Allied Military Government, finished its 16-day stand in Manhattan. Orders were heaviest for china ($250,000), office machinery ($120,000) and cameras and optical instruments ($100,000). Total business was a low $1,200,000, but the Germans hoped the sample orders would eventually bring many more...
There are more than fifty public garages in Cambridge. There are also a lot of streets. To the garage men these streets could be annoying competition for the overnight parking trade but for one pleasantly coincidental fact; the City forbids parking on them...