Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed went to the White House and assured the President that the Senate would soon confirm Mr. Woods' appointment by a substantial majority. He counts on the aid of the regular Republicans, plus the Southern Democrats who have their eyes on two appointments for the Tariff and Federal Trade Commissions, which will probably go to Democrats. Political plums often make salve...
When such lurid posters appeared in Moscow last week, throngs rushed to trade tchervontsy for tickets. All mobs love gore, but must very generally do with out it nowadays. Therefore, the wolf fight prospectus which was distributed in Moscow last week was pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight...
...Radio Dealers deliberately train buyers to the use of better and costlier receiving sets, sometimes even selling experimental sets at a loss. How well the dealers were rewarded in 1926 by this canniness, the trade journal Radio Retailing estimated last week-1,750,000 sets sold; average price $115. The year before the average price of 2,000,000 sets had been $83. In 1926 the sale of sets, parts and accessories reached $588,000,000-$158,000,000 more than...
...course, has done very well for himself. By the time he had finished school and college he saw how foolish he had been to hate them. Respectability pays. He learned the printer's trade, managed a Kansas politician's small-town newspaper, took his good manners to Kansas City and worked on the Star. He married a schoolteacher, got his own small-town newspaper, let his girth grow and joined the diligentsia. Eventually he made his voice heard all over the country. He has taken care not to get too slicked up; has preserved a certain loudness...
John J. Bernet was born in 1868, son of a Swiss blacksmith. He too learned the blacksmith's trade and became the best horseshoer in Farnham, N. Y. But locomotive smoke smelled better than forge smoke. Young John got himself a job as a telegrapher...