Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zippy comments like these on "People Who Matter'' have long been the highly marketable stock-in-trade of smart, nosey Inez Callaway Robb, who for the last ten years has been sticking pins into stuffed shirts as "Nancy Randolph'' of the world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined...
...Cracked down on a Chicago drug chain's advertising. In the first such action since the Wheeler-Lea Act amended the Federal Trade Commission Act last June, FTC announced that upon its recommendation a U. S. District Court had enjoined Hartman stores from advertising a weight-reducing remedy named 281 because in doing so the chain had failed to reveal that use of the preparation "may be injurious to the health...
...franc to a twelve-year low of 2.68⅜. Upon the U. S. Treasury thus devolved the enormous responsibility of supporting the world's foreign exchange in order not to let the dollar go to a premium against currencies that would cut off U. S. foreign trade. Secretary Morgenthau refused to let this worry him. Declaring that the U. S. is standing by its tripartite agreement with Great Britain and France, he professed satisfaction with the way the U. S. stabilization fund was meeting the emergency...
...workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them...
Professional jai-alai players, whose stock in trade are skill, strength and stamina, usually learn the game at the age of 6, retire at 35 with a life pension. They live a dormitory life the year round, have a physical examination before each performance, never have dinner until midnight, rarely associate with other than their fellow jai-alaiers. Topnotchers like Piston earn about $2,000 a month, the average player earns about $250. Latins all, they belong to the Spanish Association (controlling jai-alai body), pay 5% of their earnings toward pensions for their old age, which many of them...