Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Young Griffo died. He died in a basement room, where he had lived for ten years an object of Rose Collins' charity. She remembered the lean days long ago when her husband kept a Manhattan saloon and trade was treacherous, until Young Griffo stumbled through the swinging doors and spread his handkerchief. Barflies & roustabouts swarmed to the challenge. Griffo made the Collins fortune. Widow Collins remembered...
...Electric Co. sent letters to stockholders of the Coast Valleys Gas & Electric Co., the Western States Gas & Electric Co. of California and the Western States Gas & Electric Co. of Delaware announcing that it had bought control of those companies and intended to merge them. Recipients of the letters might trade their stocks for stock in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. or might sell them...
Economics 6a. Trade-Unionism and Allied Problems. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 10 o'clock. Professor C. E. Persons, Boston University, assisted by Mr. Joslyn...
...valueless paper currency coined by the war chiefs in pay for their troops, is forced upon the local people by each succeeding wave of arrivals. Theft and looting have closed or ruined the stores and business houses. Trade is impossible. The railroads have been declaring dividends only to the militarists; troops have been the chief traffic, while the stock has been abused or ruined...
...problem of opium has a direct bearing upon militarism. It is a patent fact that opium growing has become more extensive in the provinces. The country itself which nine years ago was almost rid of opium, is now the scene of a brisk smuggling trade that is protected by the militarists for the sake of the large revenue the opium trade yields. Lack of political unity is easily recognizable in china, tor while the Chinese have a remarkable solidarity, there is nevertheless, no well-articulated national feeling. The imperial government has been a mere figure-head to the far distant...