Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of TIME'S recognized policy in publishing accurate reports on every subject, we respectfully call your attention to the fact that "Screeno" was the first innovation of its kind. Under the name of "Wheel O' Fortune" it was patented on Sept. 4, 1924 and the trade-mark name of "Screeno" was duly registered in Washington...
...nation's first general strike paralyzed Seattle for five days in February 1919. In the summer of 1934 a million citizens felt the cold edge of panic when trade unionists crippled commercial activity in the San Francisco area for three days. Following a city-wide walkout last July, Terre Haute was under martial law for six and a half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small...
...furor over candid camera photographs in the White House began a year ago when, before and during the signing of the Brazilian Trade Agreement, Thomas D. McAvoy unleashed his tiny Leica with specially sensitized film, snapped pictures of the unaware President glancing at letters and orders, puffing out his cheeks, pursing his lips, gulping a drink of water...
...Isaac Magnin then set himself up in London as a wood carver and gilder in a picture-framing shop. Late in the 1870's, the Magnin's set out for San Francisco. There Mrs. Magnin picked a shop between the business and residential districts to catch the trade both ways. Isaac Magnin carved and Mrs. Magnin sold notions. An energetic, dominating woman, handy with her needle, Mrs. Magnin began to make and sell fancy baby clothes, gradually branching into trousseaux. The shop followed the fashionable neighborhoods, and before long I. Magnin & Co. was a San Francisco institution. Eventually...
...problem of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has been exaggerated beyond all reason. There would be no problem at all if international trade were stabilized, so that Italy could obtain raw materials at a decent price, and exchange for them her finished goods, so that Germany and Japan could do the same. Mr. Lansbury's motion in the House of Commons last week would have been more realistic had he emphasized the importance, not of a transfer of colonies, but of a stabilization of international trade. It is incompatible with the principle of sovereignity, and self-determination, that peoples, whether...