Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall trade in song and dance these are suggested: Follies, Artists and Models, Big Boy, The Student Prince, Rose-Marie...
...sightseers know that tong means "Parlor." The implication of the word is a genial one, implying conversation, compromise, good cheer. Tongs were originally started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...
Tong wars begin quickly, kindled by rivalry between two rich tea- merchants for the favors of one of those slender concubines that so vividly people the imaginations of sightseers; by a trade jealousy; a stolen opium shipment; in short, by almost any obscure betrayal of Oriental honor. Once begun, they are conducted on a system much re- sembling that which governs the game of chess. The purpose of each side is to wipe out the important leaders of the other. Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story...
Great Britain with its unemployed decided it would do well to stimulate her trade by buying her own products. She put on a great campaign. Suddenly a few weeks ago letters began coming from the Postoffice with BRITISH GOODS ARE THE BEST stamped on them in the cancellation marking. Last week a storm blew up. Some had discovered-who could have believed it?-some one had discovered-was it deliberate treason? some one had discovered that the machines which stamped patriotic legend were made in the U. S., had replaced British-made canceling machines...
...policy of withholding depressing statistics and publishing favorable ones would not be followed in a perfect world. But the copper trade has at least been perfectly frank about the matter- more so than certain other industries which have practised the same policy. Moreover, blank silence is probably preferable to the issuance of partial, inaccurate or careless statistics...