Word: trad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national planners who foresaw the development of the telephone, the airplane, the cinema, the automobile, the radio and the rayon industry, the pattern of society today might be different from what it is. The report recommended establishment of a board which would keep trad; of developments in and try to foresee the sociological impacts of 13 new technologies which seem to be gathering headway for a booming future...
City officials were kept busy signing tax warrants. The Board of Trad.; admitted to trading shares in the warrant trust to encourage subscriptions. In all the rushed excitement of getting Chicago out of a financial swamp, the only laggard figure was that of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson who sulkily hesitated to approve an ordinance effecting tax warrant interest rates, necessary to put into operation the distribution machinery...