Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mont., originated and operated under this plan from February 1912. This was four years before the advent of the Saunders Stores. Mr. Saunders adopted this idea very successfully, after learning about its results with Lutey Bros., Butte. This innovation in grocery retailing by Lutey Bros, was commented upon by trade journals- The American Grocer, New York, devoted several pages in quoting a descriptive booklet, "Cutting Out the Frills," issued by Lutey Bros, when opening their first store of this type. Registry was applied for in 1912 and issued May 27, 1913 by the Patent Office...
Ever since Adolf Hitler crushed German trade unionism, annual congresses of the International Federation of Trade Unions have been morose affairs. In London last week I.F.T.U. delegates from 22 countries convened again with smiles. They told each other that the Communist-Socialist "united front" victories at the polls in Spain and France mean that "Fascism is on the wane," despite Benito Mussolini's being on the crest...
...jailbird Labor Minister of the Spanish Republic, His Excellency Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhooee), who has been settling strikes by jailing the employers until they yielded (TIME, July 13), last week had something new and hard on his hands. Highly excitable Spanish syndicalists fell to quarreling with the Socialist building trade-unions, decided that the only thing to do was to blow up water mains. With a will, syndicalists fell to this work and soon had blown up so many mains that half the residential buildings in Madrid were without water...
...long fingers of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, have now dipped into China as well as into the Balkans (TIME, June 29 et seq.). The official Japanese Domei news agency put on its wires that China and Germany have just signed a trade pact with three clauses...
...commission will find the world's most efficient cooperative, Kooperativa Förbundet (union), known throughout the land as "K. F." K. F. accounts for 10% of all manufacturing in Sweden and, through its thousands of member co-operative societies, for 20% of all retail and wholesale trade. Swedish co-operative stores are the most modern in the country. Their wages are high, their salaries low. One by one, K. F. has cracked the tightest cartels in Europe, notably in margarine, electric bulbs and galoshes, a Swedish necessity. Its combat tactics are simply to go into manufacturing...