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Word: tradings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eaters and macaroni men; particularly sad for U. S. and Canadian farmers, who are still racing to dispose of surplus wheat crops (TIME, May 13). To Prime Minister Mussolini the development of wheat growing is more immediately important than cheap flour for his people. Half of Italy's trade deficit in 1928 was due to wheat imports, which amounted to three billion lire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Wheat Up, Skirts Down | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...upon the British favor that their vogue is considered certain to continue even after Dora shall have been rendered extinct by the same unfeeling government that created her. Indeed, the robots of the present have evolved into remarkably gifted samples of their species. They say "Thank you," they repeat trade slogans, they make change. One of the newest of Dora's progeny, however, possesses a truly embarrassing gift. This is a change maker which, when presented with legitimate coin of the realm, silently and efficiently performs its functions. If, however, some thrifty and dishonest Briton insults it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dumb Dora's Child Cameo | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

June 10, will presumably devote itself to the problem of discovering a combination in restraint of petroleum which shall not be a combination in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gas Up | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Charles was apprenticed to Leary & Co., famed hatters of 105 Broad St. After learning his trade at a salary of $25 a year, he was given a $250 bonus and a $10 a week job. Still not quite 20 years old, Charles Knox opened the first Knox shop at 110 Fulton St. So small was his store that only one customer at a time could be accommodated. Thus the shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

They demanded $285,000 per month for an indefinite period, plus war munitions and supplies from the city of Canton, minus any interference by Canton authorities with the Kwangsi opium trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ding, Dong | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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