Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wearied with futile anxieties about the future. It is not for us to plan the unattainable. It is for us, in our day and generation, to play our part. . . . You will find us keen in trade, zealous for the advantages of commercial intercourse, but no one knows us well who fails to recognize, despite all our shortcomings, the dominance among us of the ideals of independence and democracy...
...manufacturers have found that Russia is in a buying mood for mining and oil equipment, agricultural machinery, binder twine, live stock, chemicals, metals, rubber, cotton, adding machines and typewriters. The Amtorg Trading Corp.* of Manhattan let it be known that business with the Soviet Union has been booming, that shipments reached a total of $31,199,834 in 1927, as compared with $8,681,412 in 1926. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc. of Manhattan reported that its exports amounted to $42,000,000 in 1927, against $33,000,000 in 1926. These two companies handle the bulk...
...Tragedy has no appeal to me, comedy is my trade, and I intend to stick to that form of drama", asserted Frank Craven, 'who is playing in. "The 19th Hole" at the Hollis Theatre. "I have tried Shakespearean tragedies, and must say that I am not inclined toward them...
...Standard of N. Y. sees no reason for cutting its own throat by rejecting Russian oil, the U. S. State Department has approved trade with Russia. Standard of N. Y., having no Rumanian oil rights, must buy Russian oil to maintain its position in the Eastern market. Standard will fight Shell...
Significance. Billions of dollars are concerned; an international trade rivalry as bitter as any clash of armies. Usually the great oil powers respect each other's prices, markets, territories. Shell is rival of Standard of N. Y. and the powerful Standard of New Jersey (a separate concern whose attitude in the controversy is not yet clear) for oil control of the world. The price war may foreshadow a far reaching, dangerous disagreement with jealous, potent British commercial interests...