Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine state of agitation, True Confessions was trying to collect evidence that True Story has become too enthusiastic about what ordinarily passes as innocent trade practice. Mr. Macfadden's True Story has 265 boy sales organizers who double as field representatives to see that the magazine is properly displayed on newsstands. On its regular force True Confessions employs only about a dozen field representatives, having no boy sales organization. In a long message to wholesalers last week, True Confessions complained that "organizers have been covering up copies of True Confessions on the newsstands . . . and have . . . thrown them...
Colonel Donovan was well aware that he was defending as big a batch of U. S. bigwigs as ever was put on trial. Summoned to Madison last October on the criminal charges of conspiracy to raise and fix gasoline prices were 26 major and subsidiary oil companies, three oil trade journals and 56 oil tycoons. By last week charges had been dismissed against all but 16 companies and 30 men. In 1935 and 1936, according to the Government, these companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma...
...world's greatest securities market is not, as most people suppose, the New York Stock Exchange. Together that exchange and 21 others in various U. S. cities trade in a mere 7,000 security issues. But the vast, inchoate and little publicized U. S. over-the-counter market deals with no less than 55,000. The dollar volume of business it handles has been estimated as much as 300% above that of the exchanges, but no one knows how great it is. Nor does anyone know exactly how many "otc" dealers there are. On January 1, 6,883 such...
Bootlegging. In Philadelphia & Reading's petition under the Bankruptcy Act it cited the loss by 'legging of 4,000,000 tons annually. But this highly publicized illicit trade is no longer what it was. Several States have legislated against bootleg coal, leaving Philadelphia almost the sole market; surface outcrops suitable for bootleg mining are approaching exhaustion. Bootlegging never accounted for more than 8% of the total anthracite output, probably employed only 20,000 men at its peak. Last week the Commission guessed that it now employs...
...product. The journalistic counterpart of this idea provides a similar basis for the Nieman Fellowships. Thus Dean Hudnut plans to require the students of his School to take an outside apprenticeship of at least six months before graduation, the object being more practical experience with actual tools of the trade. In short, he wants Harvard architects to build better buildings, while President Conant is frankly anxious for newer buildings by better builders might be construed as their combined...