Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge sent to the Senate the nomination of Charles H. March of Litchfield, Minn., for membership on the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. March was potently pro-Coolidge in the Minnesota pre-convention campaign...
From 1924 to 1928, while president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. John D. Sherman wrote 24 magazine articles on home equipment and kindred topics. Last week the Federal Trade Commission, investigating activities of public utilities companies, discovered that Mrs. Sherman had received $600 apiece for these articles. The payer was the National Electric Light Association, publicity organization for U. S. power companies. Testifying before the commission, Mrs. Sherman said that from 1924 to 1928 the N. E. L. A. had contributed $80,000 to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Last week...
Life is simple in the Venice of the South. It has an average population of 4,000. Nearly half, because few Americans will dive for sponges, are Greeks. Among them the trade is of immemorial antiquity and rich with legends, reaching back to the days when divers with burnished copper bodies gleaming in the sun of the Egean plunged to their deaths in quest of the finest, most deeply hidden sponges for the toilets of haughty Livia, or that Messalina whose luxuriance scandalized even imperial Rome...
...Foreign Trade: "German foreign trade has markedly progressed toward stability. The margin of excess imports over exports narrowed in the past year, and in September both attained a substantial equilibrium for the first time since 1926. This is partly due to the decline of imports, but exports reached the largest dimensions since 1924. Exports and imports came to an equilibrium in September at a level of approximately 1,100,000,000 marks as compared with...
...something they had striven for since last September when their resources were $838,129,668. Last week deposits alone were $842,358,215. Capital of $40,000,000, surplus of $50,000,000, undivided profits of $13,377,018 and other items (notably $96,819,425 in trade acceptances) made up the $1,052,211,198. Fewer than that number of dollars have been the number of minutes elapsed since Jesus was born or modern time calculated...