Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions as such may be prosecuted under the Sherman Act.† The Chief Justice said the question was not presented, despite the milkwagon driver defendants. Thus President William Green of the American Federation of Labor found no clue in the Supreme Court decision to the future of his building-trade unions-now widely indicted in the Justice Department's drive against trade restraints in the construction industry...
Elsewhere, Red rumblings and the Allied-German tug-of-war over trade and prestige reverberated throughout the Balkans...
...Allied-German duel for Yugoslav trade the Nazis appeared the winners of round one. The Germans forced Yugoslavia to recognize (in principle) pre-World War I debts incurred by Serbia and by the old Austrian province of Bosnia, now in Yugoslavia. Remarkable feature of this agreement was that neither debt has been serviced since 1914, and that both were virtually considered as having lapsed. To pay off the "debts," Yugoslavia will presumably offer goods...
Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...
...years Martin Block, softly recommending brides to Michaels Credit Department Store, husbands to the Madison Personal Loan service, listeners to the trumped-up rigmarole of his Make-Believe Ballroom, had made $60,000. Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...