Word: traded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed action, hinted that the industry ought to purge itself lest "a municipality . . . tomorrow . . . may similarly attack the alternative feature & shorts program, and the day after by legislation decree the length of a feature itself." Motion Picture Herald's Martin Quigley, Johnny-one-note of the trade press, was plaintively sarcastic: "This industry is going to be fixed up fine," wrote he, "when all the experts get through -making it safe for babies, supplying adult education on the screen and carrying the messages of the assorted propagandists. After all those functions are served the subject of entertainment...
...years ago the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to stop selling its tires to Sears, Roebuck & Co. at net prices lower than those accorded to other purchasers-a practice which had enabled Sears to undersell its competitors. When the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act presently was passed, Goodyear abandoned the practice. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the F. T. C. order on the ground that the controversy no longer existed...
Redheaded, unscrupulous Prince Andreas Rasonski was so ugly that even peasant girls could not abide him except in the dark. His political ambitions he kept hidden for much the same reason. His model was Napoleon; his goal, to trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen...
...Obstacles in the path of an effective trade agreement between the United States and Britain are the Ottawa agreements of 1932 which (1 bound England not to raise the tariffs, 2 established preferential tariffs between Britain and her Dominions, 3 bound Britain not to buy anything from the U. S. she could get from Canada, 4 restored free trade to Britain and her Dominions, 5 bound Britain not to enter into any international agreement without the consent of her Dominions...
...neutrality act were enforced in the Far Eastern crisis, its first effect would be to (1 blockade the coasts of Japan and China, 2 withdraw all American soldiers, sailors and marines from China, 3 stop shipments of arms from this country to Japan and China, 4 stop all trade between this nation and China and Japan, 5 call a conference of neutrals to deal with the crisis...