Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They married in 1903. He was the son of a Saxon beer merchant; and, being a smart son, won his Doctor's degree with a thesis entitled: Upon the Development of the Berlin Bottled Beer Trade...
With record production, record sales, the U. S. automotive trade continued, last week, to head the list of prospering industries. From each of the four leading units came reports of progress, plans...
...face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British trade...
Time and again he had the courage to change his mind and defy his party-notably in the cases of Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade. As a staunch Tory (the party which represented landed interests) he had opposed Free Trade, opposition to which was exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm...
...Straton started a crusade against Manhattan "night-life." He spoke from his pulpit of painted women who "plied their trade"; he described with astonishing intimacy the nudity on view in Aphrodite, a current revue. So detailed were his accounts that many members of his congregation deserted it and some of the trustees took exception to his eloquence...