Word: traded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week reported the London Daily Express, owned by Aircraft Minister Baron Beaverbrook. Next day the British censor passed a dispatch in which Chicago Daily News's Helen Kirkpatrick noted: "It is significant that districts where unofficial strikes (that is to say, strikes not organized by the trade unions) have cropped up happen to be districts where the Communist Party is most active. Communist agents have been found circulating in factories and among dock workers trying to stir up trouble...
Visiting McCook, Neb., Jack Dempsey paid a call on McCook's leading citizen, 79-year-old Senator George W. Morris, The Senator eyed Jack's dashing sombrero, and remarked that it was a fine hat. "Let's trade," suggested Jack. Out walked Boxer Dempsey in the Senator's prairie-blown grey felt...
Last week in Tokyo the Government went further. Laws were passed for total control of foreign trade, news reports, daily necessities, prices and uses of farmland...
Though only 50% of the draftees actually sign up, this potential line-up was too much for the other club owners to bear. Before adjourning, they voted to plug the loophole in their draft rule: next year no club can sell or trade its first-or second-choice draftees until one playing year has elapsed, except by consent of the other nine league members...
Lacking a Gone With the Wind, the book trade still had two notable bestsellers, Kenneth Roberts' Oliver Wiswell and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Besides, a Negro, Richard Wright, wrote a best-seller about a Negro, Native Son. Of first novels, the most promising seemed to be Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...