Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover will not mind making a fine old hymn of our fathers into a catch-tune of the hustings. I have been a Republican, if that is what it is to vote for Taft, Hughes, Harding and Coolidge, but I am observant and, I hope reverent. Politics is a trade and a business nowadays. There is no place in it now for holy hymns. My promise to vote for Smith should reassure you that I am not fanatical about the separation of church and state. My protest is simply against what seems to me a particularly crass bit of blasphemy...
...tall iron gates at the entrance to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris three years ago where he received the highest prize. Describing the things he has made by their ordinary names makes it seem that Brandt is no more than a successful plumber who conducts his trade with an eye for symmetry rather than the clock. Such is not the case. When Brandt designs a clotheshorse the thing is as lovely as a statue; his screens arc metal tapestries, executed with the clarity of silhouettes, touched with a unique grace, severe, luxurious and odd. Forty-five, a native...
Magazines. In the field of trade journals, where editorial problems are simple, profits great, was a merger: A. W. Shaw Co. (Magazine of Business, System) and McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Inc. (Electrical World, Coal Age, Radio Retailing, Bus Transportation, and many another...
According to the U. S. interpretation, the combine (including the U. S. and Bethlehem Steel Corps.) was to be organized under the provisions of the Export Trade Act to prevent competitive price-cutting between U. S. steelmen in European markets. Through consolidation of foreign offices, elimination of duplicate staffs, considerable economies might be effected. Thus the U. S. would be in a better position to compete with the rejuvenated German steel industry. (TIME, July...
...Farrell had made agreements with German makers to keep greedy U. S. hands out of European markets, in return for promises to keep foreign steel from offering serious competition in U. S. markets. Suppose the export combine was for the purpose of making these agreements effective. Suppose the Federal Trade Commission, to whom the combine application was made, should view such agreements as potent and possibly dangerous aids toward controlling domestic as well as foreign prices...