Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club, the American Legion, the Business Men's Association, and the Mayor's Committee of Dover protested indignantly when it was suggested that perhaps it would be better to remove the arsenal to some distant region, take away from the merchant's their bonanza of soldier trade...
...balance (costing close to $8,000,000) had been imported from European potash beds which extend from Stassfurt in Prussian Saxony (under German control) through and into Alsace (now under French control). He told that in August, 1924, these Germans and French had agreed to split the U. S. trade, 65% to Germany, 35% to France (England knew of this arrangement, did not interfere, only warned that she did not want British potash needs curtailed); that in May, 1925, the agreement was renewed to terminate August...
Certainly Secretary Hoover, prompted by Dr. Klein, is making a wrathful gesture at the French-German potash monopolists. But at least for the nonce it seems as though he will have to reinforce it by more than $100,000 of research. He might threaten some international trade retaliation...
...hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted approximately two-thirds of his life to the trade of fistic war. He is not beau tiful. He is not agile. He is not even particularly strong, but long hours spent in the practice of his profession have given this virtue: he is hard to hurt. He absorbs, without feeling them, blows that would decimate an ordinary citizen...
Chevrolet gets $8,000,000 to expand its plant. Now it is losing trade from inability to supply demand...