Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the stockmarket, official Nazi statistics showed last week that the shrinking foreign trade of Greater Germany has now reached a volume slightly less than the trade of Germany alone before Austria was absorbed. The comfortable surplus of Reich exports over imports last year has now become a deficit of some $40,000,000. If the future looked rosy even to Economic Four-Year-Plan Administrator General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, he would hardly have issued, as he did last week, a decree obliging everyone in Germany to turn over every last gold coin to the State...
Strictly as a trade journal, P. I. has served its industry well.* It has carefully reported and assayed every simple or fantastic scheme to get the U. S. consumer to buy something. It has evolved statistical summaries of the status of advertising. It maintains a clearinghouse for advertising slogans, now has 7,500 on file. Its Readers' Service answers 300 questions a week, provides P. I.'s editors with an insight into the problems of advertisers. To the irrepressible, sometimes irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer...
...prediction, cinema production, distribution and exhibition were largely separate. But a struggle for control of the industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent years, the chief trade organization of independent exhibitors, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week's suit in Manhattan...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...
...adman, announced he would retire October 1, picked handsome, 46-year-old Don Francisco to succeed him at a salary said to be between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, moved L. & T. headquarters from Chicago to Manhattan. No reason for the change was given but the trade knew that 58-year-old Albert Lasker (onetime head of the U. S. Shipping Board) has grown more interested lately in cruises than in clients, has long planned to quit the $40,000,000-a-year business he has controlled since...