Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luxury of great public works. Machine guns are more necessary today-alas-than stone fountains for villages." Paul Reynaud insisted that the 32 decrees stop just short of totalitarianism of either Left or Right, preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon Jouhaux promptly indicated a feeling that such measures probably are today the sole means of making France strong enough to hold her ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor...
...Frank Theis prepared to sail for Rio, rumor circulated that he was going to trade U. S. wheat for Brazilian coffee. The U. S. has heard a lot lately about European, particularly German, barter with South America and Mexico (machinery for oil and crops); so it seemed reasonable for U. S. traders to defend themselves with similar tactics. But last week the Brazilian Government emphatically denied the rumor. President Getulio Vargas announced that the Government's new coffee policy (like the -U. S., Brazil found crop limitation a failure, now ruthlessly dumps its coffee surplus abroad) had been...
...Cracked down on the wood-cased lead pencil industry. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Lead Pencil Assn. Inc., President William A. McDermid and 13 member companies which account for more than 90% of U. S. production, charged them with price fixing, unlawfully restricting, monopolizing and eliminating competition after a 1935-36 price...
...black every year. Net of $1,007,213 last year was due largely to Government subsidies, plus the fact that the line's 18 small ships (none over 9,350 tons) share a virtual monopoly with the Italian Lines on the hemisphere's second richest trade route...
Cadillac, lower and longer except in the unchanged V16, offers four models in its Sixty-One series, a Sixty Special (touring sedan), Fleetwoods for the custom trade, LaSalles for the middle-price buyer. Prices: $1,320 to $5,140. Features: "syncromatic shift" on the steering post, sunshine top, "Controlled Action Ride," which reduces sidesway through a new rear springing system...