Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Boot & Shoe Trade Association, deciding that the only way to fit a shoe properly is to study the shod foot in action, exhibited a rubber overshoe carrying six electrical contacts at key pressure points. When the wearer walks over a metal surface, electrical instruments record the pressure changes...
...Cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg astounded the newspaper trade by suddenly abandoning the grotesquely exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist...
Last year Cartoonist Goldberg was invited to leave his artistic retirement, continue the late Sidney Smith's Andy Gump for the New York News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected...
...Mainsprings of new United Stockyards Corp. are Banker John DeWitt and longtime Swift Executive Wesley K. Wright. Mr. Wright will soon move from Swift's plant on the South Side, from which he has managed Swift stockyards for the past 14 years, to Chicago's Board of Trade Building as president of United...
...calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these points could be made without resort to strikes and violence along the coastline, if either side would adopt a spirit of fair play. For clearly the best interests of the shipping trade demand a decent standard of living for sailors, as well as an equitable return to the owners of the ships...