Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
...Manhattan did not want to trade in London, London most certainly wanted to trade in Manhattan. And London wanted to buy, the sooner the better. Touched off by orders from Europe, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's reputation with businessmen and bankers has always been far higher than at home, the stockmarket shot up in the heaviest trading since last February. Day after elections, the Dow-Jones industrial stock average climbed nearly 4 points, best day's gain since 1933. Public utility stocks, which had been widely touted as the best method of batting on Alf Landon, declined automatically...
...promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price, but the importers last week hoped to do a brisk trade in "Nippy Sports" as novelties...
...together a non-profit organization of music lovers called the New Friends of Music, Inc., announced that they would run this winter a series of 16 concerts devoted to the more erudite chamber music and songs of Brahms and Beethoven. To attract sincere music lovers and discourage the carriage trade, they held their prices down to $1.10 top, promised to get not the most noted performers but the most competent. Old hands predicted ruefully that they would run aground. Last week when the New Friends opened the doors of New York's big Town Hall, in surged...
...philanthropist who rented him a 50-acre patch near Sydney for a shilling a year. He named it Koala Park, planted eucalyptus trees, built a koala hospital, developed a thriving colony which tourists came from far & wide to see. Naturalist Burnet did not grow rich on his tourist trade, had a perpetual struggle to keep himself and his delicate little animals alive...