Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boldest political maneuvers in French history was attempted this week by Premier Edouard Daladier. More than once before the hardheaded, middle-of-the-road Premier has tried unsuccessfully to trade in his coalition (The Popular Front) for a new coalition-to shake off his left-wing allies, the Communists and Socialists, and secure new right-wing al lies in their place. This time he acted swiftly and directly: he slapped his allies in the face. In a pugnacious nationwide broadcast, he announced flatly that the time had come for France to repeal the law which has been the keystone...
...maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial ring. Elsewhere, mainly in the British countries and Latin America, trade is just hobbling along, as it was earlier in the year...
Explanations of the King's downfall were as numerous as his enemies. The trade believed, however, that King Balish had been living too lavishly, had extended himself too far last year in buying Partner Dingfelder's interest, had plunged too heavily on several bad deals since 1929. In filing for bankruptcy, the Onion King listed liabilities of $150,970, assets of $414,576. Among the latter were $160,000 representing goodwill and value of the firm's brand, $42,000 listed as "advance to Ben Balish...
...Delayed imposing limits on speculative trading in grain. Commodity Exchange Commission let slip the news that the effective date for these rules (TIME, June 27) had been postponed indefinitely since both the Chicago Board of Trade and Cargill Inc. had protested that the rules exceeded CEC's constitutional prerogative...
...starch and discarding the "hearts of wheat'' from flour greatly irks such scientists as Dr. Robert Runnels Williams because it "throws away the mechanism necessary for the metabolism of that starch'' (TIME, July 11). Last week in Chicago, Morris Mills, Inc. demonstrated to the trade for the first time a practical process for making flour without removing the germ. The trade was interested; present were seven foreign consuls, U. S. officials and representatives of 50% of U. S. flour production. Edward Jacob and Edgar Martin Miller, father and son, Missouri millers, invented the process; they interested...