Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Administration Subsidy bill suffered ignominious death in Congress, Mr. Harding has been at work on a plan to liquidate, take the loss and humiliation, and retire from maritime trade. Details have not yet been announced...
...Business School Library, with its 30,000 volumes, attempts to answer questions on various business subjects ranging from the oldest accounting to the newest business statistics. But aside from the extensive collection of books the library also keeps on file numerous current business periodicals and trade journals, continuations and reports, financial series, and other miscellaneous publications...
...study of specific phases of business which is devoted exclusively to the commercial fertilizer industry; "La Hacienda", published for the purpose of disseminating practical knowledge on agriculture, live stock and commerce to Spanish and Portuguese countries; "Postage", which furnishes information as to direct mail advertising, and "The Waste Trade Journal" intended to keep the trade in metal and textile wastes in touch with market news and prices...
...compile a list of these contributions but so far it has been unable to determine exactly how many there are at present available. These continuations include such things as Census reports, "Poor's" and "Moody's Manuals", reports of societies such as the Taylor Society, the American Foreign Trade Association and the American Bankers' Association, annual statistics such as Shepperson's "Cotton Facts", the World Almanac, advertising rate books, credit information. Dunn and Bradstreet's rating books, trade directories, bankers directories and income tax services...
When a man chooses a profession, he does so presumably with a knowledge of himself and a fair knowledge of his intended profession. Helping a student to choose a profession or trade in which be will find joy should be the aim of the school. "I have seen multitudes of young men graduate from Harvard College", said Dr. Eliot, "without knowing what they were fit to do or what they wanted to do. . . . The whole elective system is to give college students a chance to try various intellectual paths to see if they can find out what they want...