Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed, viva voce, a bill creating the Foreign Trade Service. Its purpose is to unify activities for promotion of trade, and it will be under the Department of Commerce, of which Herbert Hoover is Secretary. In debate, Representative Black of Texas snorted at the salaries of $10,000 and generous perquisites offered to the advance agents of commerce. Representative Rayburn of Texas countered by citing the rice industry of California as one of thousands of examples of the benefits secured by our foreign trade agents. Representative Hoch of Kansas was author of the bill...
...trade dollar of 1873 shows Liberty wearing a diadem, seated on a bale of goods...
...following countries had established normal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union up to Jan 1, 1926: Afghanistan, Arabia, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania. Mexico, Mongolia, Norway, Persia, Poland, Sweden, Turkey. Czechoslovakia has established trade relations...
...hospitals their work is supposed to be practical, the putting into practice of their academic knowledge. Their salaries are meagre, generally between $25 and $30 a month besides board, lodging and laundry. Orderlies earn $40 to $60 a month and keep. Nurses get more. But theirs is a trade, whereas the intern is an embryo professional man. He is paying in a way for his educational contracts with skilled physicians and surgeons...
...Hatrack," or "Fanny Fewclothes," is described as a prostitute who went to the "Northern Methodist Church" of Farmington repeatedly, but was so rebuffed by the whole congregation that she always returned to her ancient trade...