Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the word "bi-partisan" is frequently used does not mean that the return to office of President Truman and the Democratic party will have no effect on our foreign policy. There are various parts of that policy, notably with respect to tariffs and foreign trade, where the partisan cleavage has remained deep. There are other parts that are likely to be pressed by quite different means than if Dewey and the Republicans had come to power...
Finally, if the Republicans had come to power, certainly the reciprocal trade program and the proposed International Trade Organization would have been in jeopardy. On the other hand, the Democratic victory is likely to lead to farm policies which run strongly counter to the principles of the International Trade Program. Truman will support freer trade and the trade organization which is all to the good; he will probably also strengthen agricultural price supports which carry with them export subsidies for agricultural products. This is certainly hard to reconcile with the trade program...
Testifying before a Senate committee in 1945, Oppenheimer pleaded for continued free trade in information and ideas. Wartime's fettered physics, he argued, was not really science at all: "The real things were learned in 1890 and 1905 and 1920 . . . and we took this tree with a lot of ripe fruit on it and shook it hard and out came radar and atomic bombs. [The] whole [wartime] spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known...
Stainless? The Department of Justice announced that 18 makers of stainless steel-roughly the U.S. steel industry- had consented to a decree in an antitrust suit that banned them from fixing prices and "employing other restraints of trade." The steelmen said that, as they had already conformed with most of the provisions, they saw no reason to bring the case to trial...
...William J. Sampson Jr., 51, head of the American Welding & Manufacturing Co. of Warren, Ohio. Big (282 Ibs.), bluff Bill Sampson had his own idea of how a free-enterprise system should be presented. He thought the job should be done locally, that national ad campaigns by big trade and lobbying groups were too general to be effective. "Besides," says he, "there's a feeling that anything that the National Association of Manufacturers or the American Iron & Steel Institute do has the kiss of death...