Word: marts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1935 Marshall Field & Co. had the largest drygoods business in the world, the largest building in the world (Chicago's Merchandise Mart for trade exhibitions), the second biggest department store in the world and one of the biggest drygoods wholesale businesses in the U. S. It also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey...
...silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. On a drizzly day last week, 7,000 people and 642 dogs from Washington, Richmond, and the surrounding countryside gathered under the 400-year-old oak trees in Fredericksburg's city park for the 239th renewal of Fredericksburg's famed dog mart. According to tradition it; was founded to pacify warring Indians who had no need of the usual peace offerings of beads, muskets or rum, but who coveted the colonists' fine dogs. It has evolved into a meeting where all comers can auction and buy dogs of all varieties...
...last week to celebrate Independence Day, 116th anniversary of the little nation's liberation from Spain. Crowning the day's ceremonies was the bestowal by the Chamber of Deputies on the curly head of El Salvador's Dictator, President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the high-sounding title, "Benefactor of the Nation...
Little El Salvador is admittedly hard up for money, so Benefactor Martínez is hailed by virtually all 1,600,000 Salvadorians for his tightfisted economies during his six-year regime. He led off with a martyrlike 50% slash in his salary, has closed some foreign consulates temporarily, quit, the League of Nations in the struggle to balance the budget (TIME, Aug. 23). With coffee about 80% of her exports, agricultural El Salvador depends for its revenues on a favorable foreign trade balance. Chief coffee customer is Germany. While crying for cash, El Salvador has instead been stuffed with...
Last week in the Assembly, Salvadorians fervently unveiled an engraved plate bearing the new financial doctrine of the little nation. It was an excerpt from Martínez' last speech to Congress: "I propose as the keystone of the nation's policy that it never contract a new loan...