Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been even remotely mentioned in court last week as having known some-thing was afoot against Stalin, even though charged with nothing themselves. Among half a dozen Bolshevik bigwigs who thus jittered, first to commit suicide was Comrade Mikhail Tomsky, onetime chairman of the Soviet All-Union Council of Trade Unions and Director of the State Publishing House...
While the Drought sent commodity prices up to new highs for the year, last week's gains in industrial production, retail sales, construction, brought U. S. industry abreast of trade conditions...
Without shedding blood the Chamber had passed into law most of the Popular Front platform: 1) nationalization of munitions factories, 2) the 40-hour week, 3). collective bargaining between employers and trade unions, 4) vacations with pay, 5) co-operatives to handle French peasants' wheat and fix its price, 6) forced retirement at an earlier age of France's whiskered, fusty reactionary bureaucrats and 7) partial nationalization of the Bank of France, founded by the great Napoleon...
...Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...
...sociologists made an exhaustive survey of tourist camps near Dallas, Tex., discovered that nearly 75% of the patrons were not tourists at all, but local couples who used the cabins few about an hour. Many proprietors admitted that "couple trade" was the foundation of their business. Some even admitted discouraging legitimate tourists because they stayed all night, brought less revenue than local lovers. In one camp, a series of "couples" rented one cabin 16 times in one night. In ten weeks, one camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names...