Word: trade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rotary traffic, which has been in operation since last spring was abandoned yesterday by order of Chief of Police Timothy H. Leahy. The new system had been considerably criticized by many people including Harvard Square merchants, who claimed that trade was lost...
...found instant favor with a large and admiring public. Its second issue appeared on a monthly basis. Last month Esquire reached a circulation peak, sent some 440,000 copies to readers throughout the land. Last week this big, slick publishing success branched out with a speculative journalistic sideline. The trade was informed, through the medium of a full-page advertisement in Editor & Publisher, that "The Magazine for Men" was entering the newspaper syndicate business...
...executive who thought Mrs. McLaughlin had greater commercial possibilities than the Formfit job brought forth. Soon Adman George Enzinger had Mrs. McLaughlin running a retail hat shop on Chicago's smart Near North Side. When the hat shop was abandoned, Mrs. McLaughlin went into the wholesale millinery trade. As designer and working boss of Irene Castle, Inc., she has toured the West, put her product in 52 stores in 52 cities. Both comely Mrs. McLaughlin and her 11-year-old daughter Barbara Irene are walking advertisements for "Irene Castle Hats." Calling on the trade, Mrs. McLaughlin often carries along...
...want to repatriate their funds? Some feared, probably groundlessly, the inevitable turn in the tide of transatlantic gold. Most traders, tacitly admitting the difficulty of gauging even the immediate effects of such involved monetary maneuvers, simply worked on the theory that any effort to ease the bonds of international trade was open to bullish interpretation...
...between Great Britain and the United States as to what the parity should be between the dollar and the pound, for, as might be expected, the English bankers and economists have no especial love for the figure of $4.87 to the pound, the rate which played havoc with their trade during the twenties...