Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born at Hofweier, County of Offenberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. His father, a prosperous brewer, came to the U. S. in 1857. George Ehret learned his trade young. He knew all about brewing and cooperage when he went to work for Anton Hupfel in Manhattan. In six years he became Hupfel's master brewer, and Hupfel lent him enough money, combined with what he had saved, to start a brewery of his own. George Ehret called it the Hell Gate Brewery. It was his ambition to make the best lager beer in the U. S. Fire...
American Stake. How great is the stake of the U. S. in China? Citizens: 12,000. Invested busines capital: $69,300,000. Missionary and philanthropic property: $75,000,000. Trade: one-fourth of all China's imports, and one-seventh of her exports...
Died. Lee Kohns, 62, wealthy importer of china and glass, one-time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate...
...Great Britain can afford to be generous and to overlook actions that would probably have precipitated armed conflict in the days of the Opium Wars, it might be possible for the United States to act with equal grace in Mexico and Nicaragua. The situations are admittedly different, yet trade welfare and the protection of nationals and their property has to be considered by Great Britain in China as well as by the United States in Central America. But it is believed in England that the former methods were not as helpful as more generous ones. There seems...
...expertly catalogued and conducted by a staff of specialists. The business man who wants library service usually wants just one thing; namely, quick, immediate supply of up-to-the-minute facts, comment and statistics upon practical problems that have arisen within his business. In the vast modern outpouring of trade journals, Government reports, research bulletins, and general magazine and newspaper articles, no ordinary library staff can possibly be expected to find its way round. Only expert special librarians can keep the material properly catalogued, filed and ready for quick reference. Some cities of the United States are now spending tens...