Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was about the last time that he would ever get a chance to see the Red Pepper at such close range. For news had been trickling out of Washington that the Red Pepper was slated for appointment to a very important nine man sociological commission Even the orthodox trade association to which he nominally belonged was overwhelmingly in favor of his promotion...
Year ago, after Britain and France had commissioned the then Premier of Belgium, scholarly Paul van Zeeland, to make his now dust-gathering study of the economic obstacles to world trade, pleased King Leopold wrote his Premier, suggested an international economic institute...
...called U.S. university youth radical. Equipped with an "opinionaire" (a test with questions on 60 controversial issues), Professor Nelson went to the horse's mouth, examined students on 18 campuses-four State universities, 14 denominational colleges-mostly in the Middle West. Sample issues raised: capitalism, communism, divorce, free trade, race toleration. Students who favored maintaining the status quo were rated "conservative," those who favored moderate changes were "liberal," extremists were "reactionary" or "radical." Last week Dr. Nelson reported that some conservatives have been losing sleep unnecessarily. Chief findings...
...swiped control from Senator O'Mahoney. At least the committee last week sent out a batch of subpoenas without Chairman O'Mahoney's knowledge. Nonetheless, Senator O'Mahoney is still TNEC's titular chief and when he rose before the New York Board of Trade for his first complete explanation of his committee's purpose, Business sat up and took notice. Excerpts...
...chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...