Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin's proxy, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped...
...last week came Japan's great attempt to stabilize the silk market in the same manner the U. S. Farm Board has attempted to stabilize grains and cotton. The great Japanese surplus of 108,000 bales (14,144,000 Ib.) which has overhung the world's silk markets for many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk...
...Gerli-Japan deal brought into prominence the Gerli silk business, largest in its line. The Gerli family was in the silk trade in Italy for years.? In 1883 Emanuel Gerli, present president of the firm, migrated to the U. S. For many years E. Gerli & Co. did a business of about 500 bales a year against its present volume...
...Japan came to the fore in silk. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, Japanese silk deliveries were stopped for two months. But Gerli & Co. arranged to ship silk from Kobe almost immediately and this was the real opening of a silk market outside of Yokohama. Emanuel Gerli is 73. Active spokesman for the firm in his nephew, Paolino Gerli, 41, a vice president. He came to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm...
...Silk is so valuable a commodity that insurance rates on it have been high. Famed in rail-road lore used to be the "crack silk" trains running out of Vancouver; every hour saved meant a saving in insurance. Lately because of low silk and low insurance prices, many a bale has made the leisurely Panama passage...