Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour canny Premier Daladier chose for this extraordinary pronouncement, portly Leon Jouhaux, vigorous French trade union leader, was in the middle of the Atlantic en route to Mexico and the U. S.; Adolf Hitler was parading 1,350,000 armed men in German war games; the French Chamber was in adjournment; and General Franco was publishing his rejection almost in toto of Anglo-French proposals for a settlement in Spain...
...Bing Crosby) does not work, not having the knack. He is idle and lazy, with no thrift, energy or regard for the value of money; he drinks, philanders, plays the horses, comes to an only temporary good end. When Mrs. Beebe (Elizabeth Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing, he takes up the hardly more stable trade of singing in night clubs. Sing You Sinners is thus no preachment for the typically American virtues, but it is tolerable comedy, jigging playfully from farce to melodrama like a kite with no tail...
...ashore really felt the pinch. At a session of the Legislature, a new bill was offered. It mentioned no U. S. shipping line, carefully exempted "transit passenger ships" (cruise ships), and, as a loophole in case of protests* placed a power of exemption in the hands of the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Last week in Bermuda's Legislature, over protests from St. George merchants, this bill became a law, subject to approval of the British Colonial Office. Same day the law was passed, Furness Bermuda suavely announced abandonment of its expedient ship-hotel policy...
...Chicago, has been veteran Operator Tom Braniff's bustling Braniff Airways. Capt. Eddie Ricken-backer's Eastern Airlines, whose network of routes over the eastern side of the continent now reaches as far southwest as Houston, has coveted some of neighbor Braniff's exclusive shuttle trade...
...staff of 65. Said he: "You can't police a country as large as America with a corporal's guard." Meanwhile, as such outbursts spurred vacationless lawyers ransacking files for anything that the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee might conceivably regard as incriminating evidence, the dogged Federal Trade Commission continued unheralded its 24-year-old pursuit of anti-trust law violators and unfair trade practicers...