Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest Ever. The old gibes were sharpened up. The Republicans, said Truman, "stand four-square for the American home-but not for housing. They believe in international trade-so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program. They say that TVA is wonderful-but we ought never to try it again." His audience, filling St. Paul's auditorium 15,000 strong, with another 6,000 outside, cheered, whistled, and applauded...
Harry Bridges' long nose was caught in a wringer last week. He had shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...
...West last week took another important step toward the rebuilding of Western Germany, on which depends the rebuilding of all Western Europe. The military governors of the U.S., British and French occupation zones announced that all of the import & export trade of those areas would henceforth be regulated by one centralized agency. That regulation meant the almost complete economic merger of U.S.-British Bizonia with the hitherto separate French zone. It was a firm answer to Russia, who, by putting on the screws in Berlin, is trying to make the West abandon Western German recovery...
Adams House last night clamped down on its inter-House dining trade by imposing a nightly quota of 25 guests...
Tungsten Cartel. A federal district court found General Electric, two of its subsidiaries, and three of their officials guilty in an antitrust suit of conspiring with Germany's Krupp between 1927 and 1940 to monopolize world trade in tungsten and other hard metals. G.E., planning an appeal, claimed that "the law applicable to situations of this kind is in a state of utter chaos...