Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremonial signing, at long last, in the historic East Room of the White House, of trade treaties with Great Britain and Canada, came to pass last week (see p. 53). To the Nation's First Hostess was left the first official announcement of another major international event. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt made known that George VI & Queen Elizabeth, after making a royal tour through Canada, will spend three days in June at the White House, one in New York City at the World's Fair. King George will have the northeast pink bedroom suite which Anna...
...there is always the possibility of new trade or business development," Whittlesey continued. "But, since the environment is unfavorable, it would take a lot of capital to build up an economic empire...
...advertising of commodities, vast sums being expended to advertise particular brands of such common products as gasoline and milk. In the oil industry to take one example, refiners are deprived of their market because of the belief induced by great expenditure that good gasoline is sold only under particular trade names. . . ." Admitting that present anti-trust laws are inadequate to limit advertising. Trust Buster Arnold nevertheless argued that "the purpose of the anti-trust laws will be furthered if advertising is limited to its proper function of building up consumption. . . ." How this limitation was effected in the Ford and Chrysler...
...business, force farm ers to take lower prices for their goods, foster monopoly, and bleed the communi ties where their stores are located in favor of absentee owners. To these assertions the chains have answers authenticated by impartial groups ranging from The Harvard Bureau of Research to the Federal Trade Commission...
Last week publishers' trade papers announced that New Directions of Norfolk, Conn, would soon publish Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. This was sensational news, since publishing Henry Miller is a task that might well make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever...