Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trade Winds (Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy; TIME...
...small, unassuming man-whose grammar is something less than perfect ("I never had no time for hobbies") but whose 37 years in the catch-as-catch-can grain brokerage business have made him widely known as the "honest Irishman"-was last week elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade...
John Gratin McCarthy, the "honest Irishman," went to work for a Board of Trade firm as messenger boy in 1903. He was 13 at the time and used to sneak out the back door of his home so the gang would not see him in his first pair of long pants. Before long he struck up a friendship with his boss's son, Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House...
...William J., knocked them down at prices ranging from $6,000 for the silver to $100 for the chromium to bigwig tea merchants, brokers and producers. Thus celebrated was the Empire Tea Centenary; thus furthered was a publicity drive to spur Britain's great tea trade...
...famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces 800,000,000 Ibs. a year, of which it exports over 500,000,000 Ibs., 62% of the world's tea exports-which, in turn, form 1% of total world trade...