Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet itself is an education in present-day foreign trade. After telling how the Marshall Plan originated, giving its basic features, administrative setup, and commodity allotments to specific countries, the book carefully explains the role of U.S. business in the Plan and the effect EGA will have on it. Author Gubin devotes 13 pages to an explanation of how foreign missions in the U.S. make their purchases, how to locate foreign buying prospects, methods of payment and the documents required. He tells how to go about selling goods to U.S. Government agencies and even gives a list of key personnel...
...that India, Pakistan and Ceylon were full dominions, now that Britain's primacy in sea power and trade had departed, now that South Africa was heading down an undemocratic, anti-British road (see below), what was left of the easy trust and informal cooperation of the old Commonwealth...
...whole, but was asked to sit in on a special session at Chequers, Prime Minister Attlee's country home. There the delegates discussed what would happen if Eire carried out her plan to leave the Commonwealth. The delegates were agreed that such a wayward sister would lose trade preferences and the right of her people to emigrate to other Dominions...
...orchestra that happens to come from France: it has a tonal quality all its own. To most U.S. ears, used to lush, soaring strings, France's finest sounded a little thin. True to French tradition, the woodwind choir was outstanding (many a top U.S. woodwind player learned his trade from the French). Some in the audience missed the drilled precision of U.S. orchestras. Explained Director Barraud: "Our musicians are individualists. I don't mean that one violinist will be pushing up his bow while another is pulling his down, but there are differences in technique...
This sop to the matinee trade undercuts some of the strongest human values in the film. The G.I. has a legitimate gripe: his allotment will not feed a gnat, let alone a healthy, expectant wife. The professor has been left on a shelf by loving friends and colleagues, to be dusted off at their convenience. Whenever these mistreated males threaten to let out a hearty, realistic beef about their grievances, Writer-Director George Seaton quickly smothers their growls under the suds...