Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radioman James W. Hodges, who learned his trade in a Kansas City drug store, was ordered to send out his first SOS signal just four minutes after the Dixie grounded. It was weak because the antenna had blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service...
...with the imperial palace. The authority of Ethiopian personages is measured by the number of slaves they possess. The very judges charged with the slavery question are themselves the possessors of slaves. Customs posts close their eyes and let slave caravans pass. While they talk abolition of the slave trade, they continue to pay taxes with slaves...
Against a solution along these lines the chief forces this week were: 1) Anglo-Saxon public opinion that one must crack down on a "Big Bully"; 2) the Socialist and Trade Union movements on the continent and in Britain which ceaselessly petitioned the League to hurl "sanctions" against Boss Mussolini; and 3) Soviet Russia whose suave Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff unleased at Geneva a strong Red speech for Peace and against Fascist dreams of Empire...
Meantime it was revealed that Dictator Stalin was doing a brisk cash trade with Dictator Mussolini in war materials shipped on Greek vessels out of Black Sea ports, to the perplexity of Communist stevedores who have been led to understand that the Third International scowls at imperialist wars...
...good for a rousing market rally today as it was in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge undertook to boost securities. Now, as then, stockmarketeers made the most of it. And they were greatly aided by an accompanying hail of other good news, including a pickup in steel buying, active retail trade, a big bulge in carloadings (see p. 56), re-entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted its quarterly 15¢ dividend...