Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courts, the contribution of the Lampoon to these professions ceases. In an imposing array of exotic psychological terms he attempts to account for this defection. The real reason need not by shrouded in abstractions. From time immemorial, these professions have not been absent, from the stock, in trade of humorists. To remain consistent with their early merry selves, college humorists doubtless steer very clear of legal and ecclesiastical waters. Humorists may be a number of things, but they are not traitors...
...will get the Chinese trade which Britain may lose? Japan and France want it. Therefore, the French avoided every clash with Chinese last week; and only as a matter of dire necessity did some Japanese Marines at Hankow unlimber their machine guns to disperse a Chinese mob which attempted to loot the Japanese concession there. Two Chinese were killed; but if Baron Shidehara can manage it, their blood will not be the beginning of red freshets on Japanese steel...
...years in a Detroit uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another...
...first railroad train that entered the city (1845). When Union troops burned the town in the Civil War, he was already doing a real estate business there; and he, as much as anyone else, helped the rebuilding. His sons? able, active Forrest and able, quiet George?continued to trade lots. At one time or another these men and their sons have handled practically every piece of real estate in Atlanta. Forrest Adair has won national repute among Masons for beginning, at Atlanta, the movement for Masonic hospitals for crippled children. He is a Past Illustrious Potentate of the Shrine (social...
Iron & Steel. Writer John W. Hill in last week's Iron Trade Review summarized 1926 iron and steel business. Twenty-six companies earned $265,138,052 on capitalization of $3,954,170,893?6.7%. In 1925 the percentage of earnings to capital was 5.61. U. S. Steel's rate was 6.65%, that of Bethlehem Steel . 5.54%. Such returns on investments are far less than prevail in other industries, Writer Hill declared, pointing to General Motors whose earnings last year were 30%?$186,000,000 on $634,000,000 capital...