Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding and fire-control in the gun turrets, and in dictating memoranda to several stenographers. Mrs. Hoover sat on deck, knitting...
...this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless of all difficulties and obstacles, one thing is clear to me, and that is that the harvest of 1927-28 has supplied the Soviet Union with a sufficient amount of grain, and therefore every...
...slightly in excess of those for 1926-27. This was made possible by an increase in the exports of practically all exportable commodities other than grain, especially oil, timber and, in particular, of articles which thus far have been of secondary importance in the export trade of the Soviet Union...
Thus strikingly Mr. Bron called attention to a new world trade trend. Supplementary information from Moscow indicated that Soviet oil production has been speeded up this year to reach 12,500,000 tons-with an export total of 3,500,000 or nearly three times the largest export figure ever reached under the Tsars. A new Soviet "cracking plant" on the Black Sea is delivering refined gasoline to tankers at 8? a gallon. The Soviet textile industry is up to an export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against...
Macbeth is a play, not so much of men and women, as of the wind and the darkness, witches and their gloomy cries. It has been played a thousand ways, by actors, steeped in the colors of their trade, unmannerly breached with gore, who bellow and rant, who incarnadine its multitudinous sea of words with bloody sound and fury...