Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step, though only a half-step, was taken in 1935 when, with Roosevelt's support, several theater trade unions were able to get Congress to grant a charter to the American National Theater and Academy. This meant that ANTA had the same charter-status as the Red Cross and the Smithsonian, and like them, no federal funds. Once a year, ANTA has put on a benefit show in New York, the proceeds of which have gone to the New York Experimental Theater...
...uncertain voice "and the piffling quality of some of her remarks made a field day for mimics. Last week, with the able assistance of her daughter Anna, Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the air with a new program, and a new radio personality. Her first broadcast won raves in the trade-and flustered Washington. Speaking by transcription from Paris, where she is a member of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, Commentator Roosevelt let fly with some salvos that were notable for both clarity of diction and political candor. Samples...
...boys will be boys, and then take up several committee chairmanships won by the uphill fight of loyal and progressive Democrats." In Washington, Democratic Leader J. Howard McGrath gingerly refused to pick up Mrs. Roosevelt's hot potato. Most of the Dixiecrats were discreetly silent. In Manhattan, the trade sheet, Variety, printed a flattering review of the show: " [Mrs. Roosevelt] ranks with the standout commentators on the air ... She displays more courage and is more positive than most of the others put together. The surprising question is why ABC chose to spotlight this commentary...
Last week, the. press was promised another respite. Thanks to improved domestic production of newsprint, said Board of Trade President Harold Wilson, circulations would be unfrozen Jan. 1, and the papers could add two extra pages (four for the tabloids) three days a week. This time, the press hoped the extra rations would last longer...
...Trade Taper. Despite mounting EGA shipments, U.S. exports dropped in September for the third straight month to $926,500,000, the lowest point in nearly two years, and $496,400,000 below their postwar peak. Imports were down also...