Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locality the Gideons never penetrated is the citadel of the U. S. Bible trade: Manhattan. There the New York Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From...
...shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent in the interpretation of "fair trade practice." On the morning of Armistice Day last week Judge Mack sat down in the big, airy room of the new Federal District Court in Manhattan's Foley Square to hear arguments in another great test case, this one brought by the Securities & Exchange Commission against the world's biggest electric utility...
...broader question of SEC's grant of power, Attorney Jackson went into detail on the evils of holding company pyramids discovered in the Federal Trade Commission's survey of 2,300 utilities, on which the Utility Act was based. Conceding that Electric Bond & Share was not necessarily guilty of these evils, he observed that the Bond & Share texture was similar to those in which corporate bubbles had been known to form. He trotted out charts to show that 48% of the gas and 28% of the electricity distributed by Bond & Share's multitudinous subsidiaries were conducted across...
...prophet on Governor Landon. Far greater was the stake risked and lost by the publishers of the respected old Literary Digest, whose famed straw vote had polled by mail 1,293,669 votes for Alfred Landon, 972,897 for Franklin Roosevelt. In the face of actual returns, the publishing trade buzzed with rumors about what the Digest had done or would do: that it had been bought with Republican or Hearstian gold, that its editors had bet and lost a fortune on the vote, that it would never again attempt a pre-election poll, that it would...
...hours. Of course, this was not additional work: it was work done in the autumn and winter which would otherwise be done in the spring. But it meant that nearly 100,000 more motor workers had jobs when they most needed them. In the industries which supply the motor trade like steel, glass, rubber, chemicals, textiles, the pre-year plan made another 50,000 winter jobs...