Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Street," or "The Lump in Leicester Square," although the latter made residence, at one time or another, in all these thoroughfares. Romney never retaliated at all, for, to the end of his life, Reynolds frightened him. In the first place, Romney had been born behind the vulgar door of trade. His father was a cabinetmaker. Reynolds was of the gentry, a clergyman's son. And Reynolds would take for mistress nothing less than a duchess with ten quarterings, while Romney had only Emma-gentle Emma Hart, who later became Lady Hamilton, whom he was forever
...This remedy is infallible. The only trouble is that in most cases the eucalyptus chokes the patient to death. It is easy to draw a parallel. The gold standard was an infallible remedy for financial dissension. Unfortunately it shows every sign of choking British trade to death. The coal strike is a direct result of the reimposition of the gold standard. Costs of sales abroad are being raised by this. Costs of production here had to be diminished in order to compete in the world market...
Funeral. Mme. Dzerzhinsky, pale, slender, 35, stood by her husband's bier with their son, 15, while the body lay in state for 24 hours in Trade Union House, Moscow. Though exhausted, she retained strength to follow the coffin to Red Square, where it was interred not far from the black marble tomb of Lenin...
...textiles. They represented virtually one-half of the U. S. cotton industry, which operates 37,000,000 spindles* in 3,000 mills. They were wary because they are traditionally accustomed to "sneaking up on one another"- in a commercial way-and hamstringing one another through one another's trade sinews. The New England manufacturers had begun this cutlass-heaving, had grown potent - in a commercial way. Southern manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake...
...agenda of their assemblage was to found the Cotton-Textile Institute, whose idealized aim is to make trade researches and surveys of commercial problems and to prepare for the mobilization of the industry in national emergencies. Its practical purpose is to overcome "the lack of co-operation which has led to fatal price cutting and cut-throat competition." It purports specifically to exclude from its activities legislative and political questions such as tariff and labor problems...