Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Relations. Continuation of the bipartisan policy; renewal of reciprocal-trade treaties; further liberalization of the Displaced Persons Act to admit 200,000 more D.P.s; full support of a free Israel...
...jibaros that the island's troubles are a problem in multiplication. Since 1899, Puerto Rico's population (now 2,200,000) has more than doubled. At present rates, it will rise another 36% by 1965. The island's sugar-based economy gives it an increasingly unfavorable trade balance with the U.S. (last year's: $140 million). U.S. expenditures for relief and public works have made Puerto Rico a vast and continuing WPA project...
...Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable...
...salesman for Kearney, received at least $1,520 in tips this year. "Whenever I sold a car," he testified, "I expected something as a tip . . . They do it all over the country." Raymond J. Kearney, co-owner of the agency with brother Robert, admitted that his allowances on trade-ins were far less than their value. He resold the cars at profits which averaged a whopping 95.4%. It was "good business," said Kearney, and he was still making "less than the national average...
From its Washington sampling, the committee estimated that U.S. car buyers had been "mulcted" at an annual rate of $450 million in the first seven months of the year in low trade-ins, tips and doodad accessories. There was nothing illegal about the deals. But Committee Chairman W. Kingsland Macy trumpeted that the auto industry "must police its own backyard" or face mandatory price controls. To police the backyard, Ford had already fired 23 dealers for grey marketeering. Most carmakers, while holding their own prices far under true market values, had actively campaigned against it. This week General Motors notified...