Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner Justice Stone, tasting a delicious sauce, turned to his hostess. "My, my!" he exclaimed, "I should like to know that recipe." "That's my secret, Mr. Justice," smiled his hostess, "but I'll trade mine for yours." Justice Stone could not reply...
...exchange throughout the land prices were soaring upward. If the Justices believed that their upholding the Government would calm the economic world, they were mistaken. In every market there was turmoil-orders to buy, buy, buy and few or none to sell. Within 15 minutes the Chicago Board of Trade, the grain markets of St. Louis and Kansas City were closed to prevent a buying panic. The New Orleans' Cotton Exchange stayed open and the price of cotton jumped $1 a bale. The New York Stock Exchange likewise continued to function, although the ticker fell eleven minutes behind sales...
Harbingers of Ceremony, six photographers were ushered into Franklin D. Roosevelt's office on the afternoon that the Brazilian Trade Agreement was to be signed. Five of them carried the usual equipment which they proceeded to set up in anticipation of the occasion. The sixth, Thomas D. McAvoy, had a tiny camera containing film specially sensitized in an ammonia bath. The President, ignoring the cameramen, continued with his work. He glanced at letters and orders. He squiggled his signature, doing his duty and eager to get it done (above) while Gus Gennerich stood ready with a blotter. Secretary Marvin...
...demands, lately revived by British Liberals, for tariff cuts by His Majesty's Government, Mr. Chamberlain retorted: "I entirely differ with the suggestion that it is necessary to take off tariffs in order to restore export trade. . . . Some may be contemptuous over our small advances in exports, but I do not believe there is any other country-unless it be Japan- which can show a similar increase...
Despite Der Reichsführer's confident Motor Show oration, Nazi economic policy, now managed by "Economic Dictator" Dr. Hjalmar Schacht stood revealed last week as bankrupt on the showing of Germany's latest official trade statistics. With Dr. Schacht puffing and straining to swell exports, they collapsed in January to a record low volume for the Century, excepting the War and inflation periods. With Dr. Schacht wrenching and squeezing to strangle imports, they swelled last month to the highest figure in three years. The Fatherland's trade deficit for January, 104,900,000 marks, was worst...