Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden rise to publicity of Victim and Victor caught the book trade unaware. Clerks went scurrying around looking under counters to see if they had any in stock. The novel was published last December by the Religious Book Department of Macmillan Co. It was reviewed in due course. Here and there a big-time reviewer was favorable but there was no concerted beating of the tomtoms such as heralds a volume bound for success of esteem and money...
...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...
...formal show of sovereign independence, Cuba remains a U. S. appendix, attached not only by trade and finance but semi-politically by the Platt Amendment. Said this provision (tacked on to the 1901 Army Appropriation Bill and never since retracted): "The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the protection of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty. ..." It was under this authority that the U. S. Army occupied Cuba from 1906 to 1909 to suppress uprisings and restore constitutional government...
...secretaries who are not writers. This handicap, coupled with the further hazard that convention speeches are generally highly conventional, tends to throw the value of a convention upon the personal contacts established rather than upon the official business transacted. Thus it is somewhat questionable whether the Sixteenth National Foreign Trade Convention at Baltimore last week made any epochal advances in the solution of problems of foreign trade. Still many an Exporter met many an Importer; many sound, if not startling, pronouncements were made concerning international commerce; and everybody appeared to be agreed upon the fact that foreign trade...
...resolution does not specifically name Harvard, Representative Hagan, in his speech before the committee a week ago, made certain references to the relations which he claimed existed between the Harvard Business School and the National Electric Light. Association, as disclosed in an investigation last year by the Federal Trade Commission into the propaganda, activities of public utilities. It is the purpose of this article to sketch the background of that investigation and to indicate some of its disclosures...