Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow labor groups. Britons tut-tutted at this, recalling how the Trada Union Council which directed the "general strike" had gained much approbation by refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian gift in any case, because he had personally stopped the Soviet money transfer under the Emergency Power Act. Sir William magnanimously added that, although the Emergency Power Act was still in force, he would not stop money transfers to the Miners' Federation, because...
Stern is the necessity of foreign traders to know even the minute demands of their clients- parceling, labeling, trade terminology and the like. Even a common language may have regional variations in phrases. For example, U. S. exporters of motor cars to Britain must keep in mind a glossary of terms like this...
...last General Motors, which for seven years has owned 60% of Fisher Body stock (TIME, May 10), will have full possession of the latter. Last week Fisher Body minority stockholders decided to trade in on the basis of one and a half of their shares for one G. M. share...
Limestone. Indiana limestone, Vermont granite, Georgia marble -these trade names have become practically colloquial phrases for builders. Of all limestone quarried in the U. S., the Bedford-Bloomington district of southern Indiana furnishes three-fourths. Here 24 companies, owning 1,652 acres of quarry lands with a probable production over the next 70 years, have just merged themselves into the $45,000,000 Indiana Limestone Co. Last week the new corporation mortgaged its property for a $15,000,000 bond issue...
...Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...