Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape, 75 miles farther on, drops anchor to give its passengers a chance to swim in the warm water, pick flowers, stare at the flat-faced Lapps. The town is not much...
...American Guild of Musical Artists' first public gesture apparently made a favorable impression on the Immigration Committee. Probably the only trade association ever formed on a fairway, the Guild was born when Baritones Tibbett and Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for a golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore...
...rectify this unfavorable trade balance against U. S. talent, the Immigration Committee was considering a bill which would require all foreign actors, singers, and orchestra conductors except those of "distinguished merit," to secure special permission from the Department of Labor before being allowed to work in the U. S. The merit qualification was what brought the Guild to Washington. Also no mention had been made of solo instrumentalists and dancers. The Guild wanted to put all foreign artists through the Department of Labor's strainer. "You have taken care of those in the bush leagues," complained Tenor Charles Hackett...
Messrs. Ellis & McKitterick were well aware of the fact that the dealer was fed up with profitless prosperity. They also knew that they enjoyed considerable personal prestige in the trade. As crack salesmen for the old Tobacco Trust, later for Melachrino, and then as vice presidents of Tobacco Products Corp., they had built up reputations for giving dealers a break. President Ellis could cash a check in any cigar store in any U. S. city of 5,000 or more. All in all, the time seemed ripe for a 15? cigaret that really sold...
Most remarkable of all strikes within recent history, the French paralysis of industry and trade continues to grow. It is a situation which abounds in paradoxes. The greatest of them all, of course, is the fact that the strike is intended to force the hand of a newly-elected Leftist government which was placed in power to transact many of the specific measures demanded by the strikers...