Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promised that he would be the only Government representative on hand. He promised that he would raise no questions, make no suggestions. Conferees, he swore, would be free to do anything, decide anything they pleased. But up to last week's end Ford Motor Co. and the following trade associations had thumbed down Government-sponsored industrial co-operation by declining to send representatives to the Berry party...
...into the dangerous waters of international contention, they planned to have a nice quiet conference by a few naval experts with the hope that these specialists in the business of killing each other at sea could work out some sort of gentlemen's agreement in restraint of their trade. The British thought that something might be done: 1) to limit the size and armament, but not the number, of various classes of naval vessels, 2) to have each nation privately inform the others of the tonnage it intends to build so that no one need overbuild out of fear...
...endorser. Today nearly every important cinemactress, except Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Miriam Hopkins, is on the Factor list. With 70 distribution plants throughout the world, Factor claims he is the leading cosmetics manufacturer in the U. S., says he has cut into the French export trade, asserts that on the basis of the last Department of Commerce survey he led the world on six items. In business with Max Factor are Sons David (London office), Frank (chemical laboratory), Louis (plant superintendent), Sidney (Southern California chemistry student); Sons-in-law Bernard A. Shore (makeup adviser). Max Firestein (hair department...
...weakness of the League in these first fifteen years of its existence has been due primarily to our absence, for, because of our pre-eminent economic and potential military strength, our claim to the right as a neutral to trade with the aggressive state has made all efforts of the League to establish collective security abortive...
...Despite the trade obstacles each State has raised against the other, Florida's oranges sell briskly in California, California's in Florida...