Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer for Newspaperdom, journalistic trade-sheet, compared newspapers of the West and East, noted differences. He proposed that Eastern editors learn from Westerners: 1) "Greater local pride and booster spirit." (Said he: "The booster spirit of the Far West is familiar to everyone." ) 2) "Greater attention to school news." 3) "Higher subscription prices." That the West learn from the East: 1) "More attention to the man who writes to the papers" (i.e., cinema, sport, health, politics, joke fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere...
...forthcoming Brazilian crop is estimated at 9,500,000 bags, about 6,000,000 bags will be produced elsewhere, and there is a world's visible supply of some 5,000,000 bags-making 20,000,000 bags altogether. This situation is responsible, according to the coffee trade, for the fact that, although the Brazilian revolution has apparently been completely put down, the price of coffee has not fallen back to where it started from before the revolution occurred...
...suavely informed the U. S. Embassy that exception would be made for goods in transit before July 5, if application were made before the forthcoming promulgation (official announcement) of the new law. This answer met the only legitimate objection to the measure, but it is certain that U. S. trade in the Orient, very largely in 'luxuries" such as flivvers, will be hard hit by the measure...
Said the Federal Trade Commission to the U. S. Steel Corporation: "Cease and desist from your 'Pittsburgh Plus.' " This after deliberations which began in June at the request of the Western Association of Rolled Steel Consumers, backed up by 32 States...
Outcome. The Federal Trade Commission's dictum is by no means final. That body, created in 1914, is subordinate in its interpretations of the law to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which may enforce, set aside, or modify orders of the Commission. Still higher is the U. S. Supreme Court...