Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing that the cotton executives before him are embroiled in a wage dispute with 400,000 Lancashire mill employes, the Prime Minister concluded warmly: "The record of partnenship in the cotton trade between capital and labor is a very great one. You have stood together. The men who work for you today are the grandsons of the men who tightened their belts and helped to carry Lancashire through the days of the Civil War in America. Think two or three times before you sacrifice a position like that...
Said Prince Tokugawa in his brief speech of acceptance: "The peaceful diplomacy of the late Commodore Perry enabled the United States to accomplish more in opening up the Orient to trade than other nations could achieve by force." The Perry relics, promised Prince Tokugawa, will be cherished and displayed in the Imperial Museum at Tokyo...
...Consolidated Gas trustees gravely heard that the Brooklyn company would trade its stock for Consolidated Gas' stock on an agreed basis. The merger of Brooklyn Edison with Consolidated Gas was virtually in effect...
Representatives of the Federal Trade Commission were working in the offices of large public utility holding and service companies at Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago last week, seeking data on the growth of capital assets and capital liabilities of holding companies and management groups, their methods of issuing securities, their intercompany relationships and the services furnished to utilities companies by holding, management and service companies. Chairman William E. Humphrey of the Federal Trade Commission last week assured Congress that he would even inquire into the political activities of the companies.† He intimated that his reports would soon appear. But observers...
...Evidence. Twenty-year-old Michel's wooden pallet stretched narrowly between two seasoned convicts, murderers both. So Michel expected to escape, did he, as soon as he had learned from the "Aces" the finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...