Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Empire has maintained its intervention policy in Egypt for 45 years-to protect the Suez Canal, chief artery of British trade...
...only potent in the councils of financiers but is rated as an authentic patron of the bold, new movement in French art and decoration. Following his tilt in the Chamber over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made necessary by the recent French tariff increases (TIME, March 12). France concedes to Italy lower duties on buttons, canned tomatoes, fruits, ventilators and women's hats, etc.; while Italy grants reductions on rabbit skins, precious stones, carpets, cheese...
...fine old colonial home of the late Buckley Howe. In it, 30 boys started living, working and studying last week. They were state wards of 14 and 15 years, selected by Henry Ford and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare to be undergraduates of the Wayside Inn Trade School. Nobody pays their tuition. They will sow seeds, grind grains, bake bread, shear sheep, weave textiles to earn wages large enough to keep them in school and have a little spending money. Also they will dig into high school textbooks for four years, after which they will probably get good jobs...
...millionaire who had risen from a small stained glass maker to be the largest plate-glass manufacturer in the world. He was on boards of great banks, Mellon National, Federal Reserve, was director of a Bell Telephone Co., trustee for Pittsburgh's Associated Charities, president of national trade associations. Yet all his life he was a sailor-man at heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years he navigated the seven seas, as boy, able seaman, master...
Last year and the year before Captain Brown sailed round the world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...