Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result is abnormally high food prices, demanded and obtained because segregated Negroes cannot trade elsewhere. And Harlem's housing problem is an open scandal. The Urban League, estimating that 50% of an employed Negro's income must go for rent, has found that Harlem rentals are from 15% to 20% higher than those in the corresponding poor quarters of the city's French, Germans, Italians, Jews. High rents mean unhealthy "doubling up" of families. So, while Harlem's broad, clean streets make a better appearance than those of Yorkville or Little Italy, the district...
...country-wide basis. Huey Long is no man's fool about such a practical matter. He also knows perfectly well that outside Louisiana where his Share-the-Wealth Clubs are run by his lieutenants, they are not organized as an effective political army. He can either trade on his nuisance value or he can run as a third party candidate. He might, as some people have estimated, poll 10,000,000 votes. If he does run, it will be a victory of his vanity over his horse sense...
They number about 40 men, mostly Italians. They band together whenever Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera gives a performance. They have no tickets and they need none. A leader passes them in, huggermugger, at the 39th Street entrance before the carriage trade arrives. Inside, they station themselves on either side of the house, as near the stage as possible. Perhaps 15 climb to the tip-top gallery. Upstairs or downstairs their job is the same-to clap...
...practice, however, he may trade in & out throughout the game, and any other idle broker may join in, although an outsider does not have the advantage of holding a numbered slip. Instead of settling individual transactions, each broker records his trades as he would on the Floor, turning over to a volunteer "clearing agent" for "settlement" at the end of the game his "bought" and "sold" memoranda. The game goes on until trading peters out or the real stockmarket stirs in its sleep. Losses have run as high as $200 in a single game but the average gain or loss...
...Brisk farm trade last spring boosted International Harvester Co.'s orders. Drought whittled them down. But Harvester finished the year in the black for the first time in three years with net profits of $3,949,000 against a loss...