Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having twiddled thumbs since President Roosevelt's plans for booming Soviet-U. S. trade went awry (TIME, Feb. n et seq.), the U. S. Embassy staff in Moscow brightened up as they were given a job last week, proceeded to take over for safekeeping the diplomatic paraphernalia of the Uruguayan Legation and consulate. Fortnight ago Uruguay, then the only South American country having diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, broke them off (TIME, Jan. 6), and last week Comrade Alexander Minkin, Soviet Minister to Uruguay, sailed away from Montevideo hissing threats in excitable Russian...
...boom sales of Japanese goods last autumn went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst...
Automobile production for 1935 was 4,150,000 units, an increase over 1934 of 45%. The building industry, notably in the Residential field, turned sharply upward. Volume of 1935 retail trade was estimated to have been as high as $33,000,000,000-18% above 1934. Industries with new all-time records included power, shoes, gasoline, electric refrigerators, Diesel engines, cigarets, oil burners, plate glass, rayon, airlines. Excess bank reserves climbed $1,000,000,000, and U. S. gold stocks increased from $8,200,000,000 to nearly $10,000,000,000. Capital markets reopened; the Blue Eagle was killed...
...contemporary of the News' Munger at the University of Chicago was Robert P. (for Peter) Vanderpoel, lanky, critical financial editor of the Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery...
...again found itself in unprofitable competition with the Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart Mr. Williams turned Boyd's old enemy-the U. S. Post Office-into its indispensable servant. The company has on file some 10,000,000 U. S. names. Trade lists start with Abattoirs, end with Zinc. There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd's listed 620,000 persons rated at $50,000 or more. Last week there were 495,000 such persons on Boyd's lists. Boyd...