Word: transaction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin, Mao presumably congratulated Stalin on his birthday. Nationalist Chinese sources reported that he had brought along 15 carloads of gifts, including rare art and historical treasures from Peking's palaces and museums. But the two leaders undoubtedly had more important business to transact; it seemed likely that they would forge treaties of friendship, alliance and trade, and prepare fresh blows at the soft underbelly of the non-Communist world in East Asia...
...they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away. On their way to see relatives in the West, or to transact long-delayed business, they all expected to return...
Although he had come to sign no pacts and to transact no formal business, St. Laurent had many matters to talk over. Uppermost in his mind was the North Atlantic defense pact (see INTERNATIONAL), which Canada keenly desires...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick is no man to let others transact his important business. When Publisher McCormick decided to go to Tokyo, politicos guessed that General Douglas MacArthur was to be measured for a presidential toga. The Colonel kept in close touch with his Chicago Tribune readers, as usual...
...there was more business to transact on the tight, if pleasurable, schedule mapped out by U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley. Addressing the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, the President recalled Brazil's contribution in bases, materials, and men in World War II, brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit...