Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard from the lips of Mr. Arthur M. Samuel, Secretary for the Overseas Trade Department, that the British Government has felt compelled to decline an invitation to exhibit at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, on the grounds of imperative national economy...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...
...volumes, including original drawings by Dowland, Cruikshank, Aiken, and Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade-cards and billheads of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries...
Competitors' machines now taken in in trade on new N. C. R. sales are shipped to Dayton and there smashed...
...comfortable liner is being fitted out with laboratories, classrooms, library, gymnasium, and all possible facilities for education. The curriculum includes courses in astronomy, biology, botany, the classics, economics, English, foreign trade, foreign languages, geography, geology, government, history, international relations, journalism, mathematics, navigation, psychology and sociology. Dean Lough of New York University and Dean Howes of Williams will be in charge. Academic credits will be issued by New York University...