Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union owns a $500,000 non-profit vacation resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Hills. Some 25,000 members are enrolled in union classes, learning everything from trade union tactics to ballroom dancing. The Union goes in for sports, clubs, pageants, dramatics, music-and politics. For the Garment Workers Union is one of the twin pillars of the American Labor Party, which holds the balance of power in New York State politics. Labor Party chairman is Luigi Antonini, president of the world's biggest local, Garment Workers No. 89 with 42,000 members...
...graduate student. Others will discuss the A. P. O. and the student who will be wanting a job for only a year or two, the A. P. O. and the Senior who already has opportunity for placement, and the truth about business opportunities in Publishing, Foreign Trade, and Government Service, subjects on which many of the men who come into the office seek information...
...Riesling, which bore less than two tons of grapes to an acre-and replaced them with indifferent vines which bore up to ten. Reason: Prohibition's amateur vintners bought grapes by quantity, not quality. The wine business continued turning out just about enough wine for the ecclesiastical trade, but the grape business prospered. California shipped about 16,000 carloads of grapes in 1918; by 1927 it shipped 73,000 carloads...
...world market. It sets this figure at 3,600,000 tons per year. But further voluntary limitation by certain exporting nations may cut it to about 3,400,000 in 1937-38 and 1938-39. This is slightly more than the present consumption of sugar in international trade, is therefore not very restrictionary. But it pleases sugar dealers because it definitely prevents threats to the market of huge surpluses...
...fear that this year's consumption will not equal even the original 1937 quota. They were distinctly irked, therefore, when Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace last week set a new 1938 quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota of 6,861,000 tons is too large to permit any sustained recovery in prices from their present low levels." Prices demonstrated that the opinion of the trade was right. Raw sugar quotations in Manhattan (including .9? duty) sagged...