Word: traded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of pretending the mines were British. They said their "objectives were being achieved." They said they were proving they could give ten shots for one. Some of their mines bore inscriptions, such as: WHEN THIS GOES UP, UP GOES CHURCHILL. They advised neutrals to shun British waters, trade with Germany instead. British waters, they said, were not mercantile fairways, subject to The Hague Convention of 1907 regulating sea warfare,* but military areas where enemy ships of war abound and must be attacked. They had been made military areas by the British themselves with their defense mine fields and blockade...
...coincidence that a Nazi trade delegation in Bucharest demanded: 1) more Rumanian products; 2) cheaper prices; 3) increased transportation facilities. More than half the German-Rumanian trade in grain and oil used to go by sea from Constantsa to Hamburg. That route is now cut and the trade has to be rerouted up the Danube or across southeastern Europe's poor railroad system. But barges and railroad cars are scarce in Rumania, and, moreover, many are owned by France and Great Britain. When the German delegation requested the Rumanians to commandeer these, Rumania refused. The Germans departed, but scarcely...
Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...
...main reasons for this difference is that usury, which accounts for far more profit in India than trade, is forbidden to Moslems by religious...
Hypercompetitive, bubble-riding, style-mad is the $100,000,000 U. S. millinery industry. The Federal Trade Commission last week published a study of its scrambled distribution methods. Prime thesis of the report: chain and syndicate distributors (who combine the functions of wholesaler and retailer) handle close to half of the total trade, are not the pirates that manufacturing milliners think them: "With a better understanding the manufacturer will come to realize that he has not been the victim of oppression by the syndicate...