Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptians are not Britons. They are a weak people, for centuries the vassals of conquerors. If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal, the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
Down at the far end of La Bombilla was the side door through which Assassin "Juan" had entered, plying the trade of a street caricaturist. The completed drawing which he had made of the President Elect lay on the table. So did the pistol which had spoken five times from concealment under the caricaturist's handful of caricatures...
...advertising pages of such magazines as the Cosmopolitan (Hearst) seem almost exclusively devoted to cosmetics. Every small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision (no health-destroying chemicals), its radio programs (Gimbel Bros. Station WGBS...
...much concerned with the issue of rice or chalk. It concentrates upon chemical, synthetic dyes. Lemon creams, smelling of tropical fruit groves but actually scented and colored with dangerous chemicals, are hateful to the Federal Trade Commission...
...business of Tibet has fallen into ruin. A pitiful hut is described, in official documents as "a snowy palace." . . . In the big villages there is not a single store. . . . "In twilight people come to you begging you to sell them something but they do not dare to trade openly. . . . It is dreadful to think that the name of Buddha is intermingled with all this dirt, physical and spiritual...