Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy's successor James McCauley Landis who helped frame the Securities Act of 1933 while serving on the Federal Trade Commission...
...largely under Italian advisers to the Emperor, and exclusively mandated to Italy would be a part of Western Ethiopia similar to the area His Majesty tried to grant as a concession to "Standard Oil" (TIME, Sept. 9) but smaller. Since Britain and France each hopes to tap Ethiopia's trade by offering the Empire a corridor to the sea through its colony. Dictator Mussolini was again overindulging his irrepressible sense of humor when he ended by declaring: "Italy, and not Britain or France, should make that sacrifice...
Japan's further activities in its Allies' behalf were chiefly two: 1) supplying textiles; 2) taking away their Eastern markets. From having an adverse trade balance in 1914 Japan suddenly found herself piling up the fantastic Wartime export surplus of 2-) billion yen ($1,246.000,000). Shipping receipts rose from 43,000,000 yen in 1914 to nearly...
...empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing to trade in marriage to the daughter of a big U. S. moneyman if her father will lend him $25,000,000. Not long after this alliance, a man's body with a bullet through it comes hurtling down from the Faulkner penthouse and Karen Andre is put on trial for Faulkner...
...terrific burst of activity that put the Board of Trade on the front page for the first time in months, Chicago wheat soared 4¢ per bu. in one day to the magic figure $1. Dollar wheat has appeared several times since the New Deal but, because U. S. markets are insulated by a high tariff against outside factors, world prices lagged far behind. Winnipeg prices have also been artificially high, due to the stabilization efforts of the Canadian Grain Board. Lacking the stability provided by huge storage facilities. Buenos Aires is erratic. From its year's low Argentine wheat...