Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose is to make people happy, and in the cheapness of his conception he can see only such trite comedy props as boot-leg whiskey, puppy-love, and husband vs. wife warfare in three rounds. As a playwright he has never tired of such obvious tricks of the trade as Owen Davis uses in many of his off moments. Still as a star he remains wholly sincere and genuine. It is fortunate for his plays that he usually acts in them himself, and adds to their odd trite jumble the flickering genius of his own stage presence...
...Adopted without debate or a record vote a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to turn over to the Senate all data in its files against the Aluminum Co. of America (data previously denied to the Department of Justice). (TIME...
...announcement stated: "The new corporation will purchase, own, sell, and underwrite securities of concerns engaged in the food trade. Its income will be derived from dividends of stocks owned, from profits on purchase and sale of securities, and from underwriting and other banking activities." In a word, the type of control already applied to public utilities, oil and bread is now to be experimented with in the largest industry in the country, the industry that feeds the people...
...Charleston,* S. C., last week the shippers, innkeepers and other public men prepared for the convention of the National Foreign Trade Council, which will meet there under the chairmanship of President James Augustine Farrell of the U. S. Steel Corporation April 28-30. The businessmen of Charleston will display their harbor and shipping facilities, their stores and shops and factories. They realize that this visitation will mean much to Charleston as an exporting city. In 1901-02 they tried to stimulate foreign trade through the port by holding the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition. That was a financial...
...life he had been collating knowledge about shipping, foreign trade and the internal conditions, principal industries, steel requirements and tariffs of foreign nations. So when in the panic year of 1893 he got his promotion to the general managership, he could go abroad to sell his products. Outside of the U. S. he sold one-half of the 1893 output of his plant, to the wonder of the trade. Then through successive absorptions and mergers the U. S. Steel Corporation was organized in 1901. Mr. Farrell still ranked as the great authority on the steel foreign trade. He became president...