Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evans Hughes, suggested Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as the man for Persia's money?or lack of it. The Doctor, then 38, had served the U. S. State Department as a routine drafter of official documents and later as an investigator of oil lands for the U. S. Foreign Trade Bureau. Then and there (1922) he signed at Washington, D. C., a contract vesting in him the whole administrative authority over Persian state finance...
...That all cruisers should be of 7,500 tons (which would suffice Great Britain, because she has naval bases for these small boats throughout the world, while the U. S. has not); 4) The justification of such a treaty to be that Britain has far-flung interests and trade routes requiring defense, whereas the U. S. is selfsupporting...
...Federal Trade Commission last week told Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and their Famous Players Lasky Corp., now known as Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp (TIME, March 28), that, although they were by no means criminals, they had none the less been doing evil to their cinema competitors and were in effect malefactors. Their trade practices had been monopolistic because: 1) By owning or controlling 368 theatres on June 30, 1926 (more than 550 now) the corporation had substantially stifled competition. 2) By renting films only in blocks, exhibitors had to accept pictures of poor drawing power. 3) By buying...
...Federal Trade Commission's decision was based on facts true a year ago. At present Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. has as active competitors: Entertainment, Inc. (Pathe, First National, Keith plus Orpheum [TIME, June 13]); Roxy-Fox (Fox Film Corp. plus Roxy's Theatre [TIME, April 4]) ; Loew's Inc. (Loew's theatres plus Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures) ; Universal Pictures Corp...
...until last fortnight did Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) publish an interview telling how the daughter of a press potentate enjoys and conducts herself as a member of her father's staff. Then it became apparent that assembling tabloid news is as much fun for the daughter as furnishing it to the masses is for the parent. Miss Patterson said: ". . . the most fun in the world. Far better than going to school, and you learn so much more...