Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Other states bordering the Great Lakes are fighting this diversion tooth and nail in the courts. Their Congressmen have grown hoarse and damp-eyed relating piteous tales of the mud flats, grounded steamers and stricken trade resulting from fallen lake levels. The matter has been reported in "threatening" terms by Canadians to their Parliament...
...British merchants [who have gone to trade in Russia] have been beaten, wounded, blinded and murdered. There is sitting in the Gallery of this House, listening to this debate, Mr. Joseph Martin, who was blinded by Bolshevik torturers...
Obviously the peculiar organizations of the Spanish army lends itself to "old men's revolutions" of this type. For decades Spanish artillery officers have been organized in juntas (literally, "committees"; actually, glorified military trade unions); and during the World War Spanish infantry and cavalry officers similarly organized themselves. The effect has been to develop loyalty to the junta at the expense of obedience to the state, to foster intrigue among the various generals who respectively head these military cliques...
French Newspapers have the keenest desire to be better informed about your country. . . . French industries want American trade. . . . French magazines want American advertising.-Dr. Marcel Knecht, General Secretary Le Matin, Paris...
...from 450,000 shares to an even 1,000,000. They ordered officers to sell $20,000,000 of stock at once, so they might purchase control of the scores of cinema theatres Balaban & Katz own or control throughout the middle west. Thus they were subtly evading the Federal Trade Commission's wish that theatre and exhibition interests be separated from production and distribution. But then, Famous Players-Lasky Corp. is a holding company of many diverse possessions worth millions...