Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost to an All-Bermuda outfit, 6-0. However, the combined Varsity team, with Harvard contributing seven and Yale eight men, won an overwhelming victory over His Majesty's Navy with a score of 15-0 on Thursday. As a result the Harvard Rugby Club was awarded the Bermuda Trade Development Board Trophy for the year...
Hokum of the highest type has long been the priceless stock-in-trade of Robert Emmet Sherwood. Like all fictionists, he has perfected a basic story which serves as the standard framework of his profitable product. In a Sherwood play, the boy practically never gets the girl for keeps. But the lovers generally have a few final poignant moments together. Before Hannibal went back to Carthage in The Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with...
...Retail Trade, usually the first to suffer from bad weather, was conspicuously good throughout the winter. February chain-store sales were as much as 14% above the same month last year. The Federal Reserve Board reported department store-sales last month up 13% from the year before, gains ranging from 5% in the Minneapolis Reserve district to 22% in the Cleveland district. In the past few weeks wholesalers have been swamped with orders. That curious figure, the Fairchild index of Buyers' Arrivals in Manhattan, was nearly 15% above the same week a year ago. Retail merchandise deliveries...
Meanwhile the Federal Trade Commission was bringing suit against Bethlehem Steel Co., American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. (U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary), and 13 other steel concerns for refusing to sell a cheap grade of tin plate to tin can manufacturers. According to the Commission, little tin can makers could not afford to buy the better grade of plate used by American Can and Continental Can, with the result that the steel men were creating a monopoly for the No. 1 and No. 2 U. S. can makers...
...pitchy roots of Southern pines. Like Hercules, it has striven throughout Depression to diversify these products and find new uses for them. But while Hercules' $3,175,000 profit last year was derived from four other large manufacturing interests (explosives, nitrocellulose, chemical cotton, chemicals for the paper trade), Newport's came entirely from naval stores and their byproducts...