Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain, the accosted, the yarns, are all of a piece with garrulous South African traders who peddle reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...
...cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what a wag called "Hoovernirs...
Federal authorities last week boarded and seized the gambling ship Johanna Smith, anchored seven miles off Long Beach, Calif. (TIME, Aug. 27.) A statute of 1793, providing forfeiture of a ship engaged in any trade other than that for which licensed, was invoked. The Johanna Smith, licensed for coastal trade, had 13 gaming tables aboard, 38 slot machines, with fast launches to ferry visitors to and from shore...
Some international good comes from the wide U. S. selling of certain products. The U. S., England, France, Italy and Belgium make rayon. For a while this hurt China's and Japan's silk trade. Japan now makes some rayon herself. But rayon has taught U. S. women and men to desire more real silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop...
...years later, a little man, almost buried in a great shock of hair and beard, came up from Colorado and began to deepen the Butte pits. William A. Clark learned his trade in a quartz mine and lost his savings in a gold mine. In Butte, he dug for copper. Gold miners, seeing his wagons start out on their 400-mile trek to the nearest railroad at Corinne, Utah, laughed aloud. "There go Clark's rocks," they jeered. And they were 98.37% right. Only 1.63% of the gray copper ore can be reduced to valuable metal...