Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myrdal, who is a member of the Swedish Royal Commission on Population, used Sweden as an example of a typical democratic country with a rapidly declining birth rate. "The impending social and economic results of a declining birth rate will have a great effect on industry, trade, and the labor problem besides the general culture of western Europe," he continued...
...Suwannee River on May 21, 1890. . . . Elected to Congress from the Fourth District in 1932; re-elected in 1934 and 1936. . . . Author of: 'Finance and Taxation Problems of Florida Municipalities.' ... He has frankly and sincerely opposed the Supreme Court Bill . . . the Black-Connery Bill ... the Reciprocal Trade Treaty with Cuba because of its injury to our Florida farmers. . . . Mark Wilcox is a cracker boy who has, by his ability, become an outstanding figure in the United States...
...eared, sandy-haired Dr. Louis Leon Thurstone is a mathematician as well as a psychologist. Scorning the vague, wordy theories of most psychologists, he likes to reduce psychology to mathematical formulae. Once Thomas Edison's assistant, he devised trade tests for the U. S. Army during the War, taught engineering at the University of Minnesota and psychology at Carnegie Institute until 1923. Since then he has been at the University of Chicago and last week he was made head of its famed psychology department. He has been president of the American Psychological Association, his intelligence tests are used...
Fomenting its trade in India, the ring brings disgrace and death to a British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass...
...pants suits, all at $17. These, aggressively advertised, sold. Manufacturers, sensing fewer unit sales, fought the innovation, but it caught on, became a trend. By 1929 Benson & Rixon's one-store $200,000-a-year business had developed into a seven-store chain with annual trade...