Word: tradings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baiting such Democrats as stayed to hear him, Senator Walsh of well-protected Massachusetts said he was for a "scientific" tariff. Senators Dill and Jones begged protection for the Washington shingle industry. Senator Bruce bumbled about the Baltimore straw hat trade. Small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana and nasal Senator Harrison of Mississippi, wrangled interminably over Republican and Democratic tariff statements and records...
February 28--"Far East: China, Japan, Manchuria", Professor G. B. Roorbach, profesor of Foreign Trade in the Business School...
...Nicaraguan affair so grave that the grim-jawed top Marine of all must take command? An "official" report was published that General Lejeune's departure had been precipitated by a dark thing in the Marine Corps. Two Marine deserters, said the story, were teaching tricks of their trade to the rebel, Sandino...
...hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant a caress on its cruel horns as it came plunging by. Lesser matadors at home in Spain followed anxiously the progress of their ambassador of good will toward...
Last week contract time came again and again the Roosevelt Line sought to break into the jute trade. Nor did they come softly. They brandished before the eyes of shippers and importers of jute a freight rate card. That card offered to carry a ton of jute from Calcutta to New York or Boston for approximately $4. The rate had been $7.90 a ton. The Cunard-Brocklebank officials read the Roosevelt Line rate figures and, counting well on the loyalties of old clients, reduced their rate to $4.50 a ton. A rate...