Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student who today glances through the CRIMSON'S fourth edition of the Confidential Guide to courses will find nothing extraordinary in seeing his professors dragged before an unofficial tribunal of upperclass scribes. Trying and sentencing of a similar nature is the regular stock in trade of all undergraduate editors and essayists. If the student who reads today's Guide be of a somewhat thoughtful nature he may even feel a slight resentment that criticism, often hasty or unnecessarily destructive, should be allowed to run rampant with the life work of a group of men as able and experienced...
...party of the U. S. from bottom to top; who is an Elk, a 32° Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James John Walker, was also present. In the course of his speech, Mr. Hays indicated Mayor Walker, grew intense and said...
Steel. Neat ingot after neat ingot will have come out of the U. S. steel mills. 48,000,000 times before the year has ended, predicted J. R. Nutt, president of the Union Trust Company of Cleveland, last week, in Trade Winds, his bank's magazine. Automobiles, building and railroad equipment and petroleum industry doings will cause the mills to produce 1,000,000 more ingots than were pressed in 1926, the record year...
...Birmingham, to say that the best brains of the U. S. are attracted to business and the second and third best to the professions. But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England. He wants English young men to study for business. Present British industrialists he holds in contempt. Many lack wits enough to be army corporals, he exaggerated, exasperated...
...Small exhibitors have in the past been obliged to accept "block" booking, a collection of tedious pictures with some good ones. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the system, found it pernicious, forbade it, denounced the burly distributors. But block booking continues...