Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, he offered to pay as Eire's share of the upkeep of these defense works $25,000,000 a year-the amount of the disputed land annuities. Thus, at one stroke two causes of dissension were removed and the two Prime Ministers quietly agreed, turning over to trade experts the detailed task of tearing down the tariff walls as far as possible. Since this task will take time, the meeting adjourned for six weeks...
Back to Dublin went Statesman "Dev," confident that he had come out on the long end. Although no definite agreements were reached, he had a sop for everyone. To his chief opposition, the Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, he could point out the embryonic trade pacts. To the fiercely nationalistic Sinn Feiners he could recall his "32 counties or nothing." To the British he could offer his readiness to shelve partition for a practical settlement...
...likely to sell. Preferred position is along the front of the stand, and lately the heavy-selling picture magazines have been crowding into those limited positions, upsetting some established applecarts and setting the nerves of most magazine circulation people on edge. When conditions are toughest, not the least uncommon trade practice of many magazines is to send representatives from stand to stand, shoving competitors' products aside, bringing their own magazines to the forefront. These tactics can drastically affect sales of magazines, but the newsstand operator, to whom one magazine sale means about as much as another...
...flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures, and the stigma that being "flunked out" puts upon them often develops an inferiority complex that they are not justified in feeling. Some of these individuals would have done much better at a trade school, or in a nonacademic career, and neither their time and money nor the college's would have been wasted...
...practical purposes of employment we are, therefore, produced in 240 companies of which 50 do most of the trade business and of which 18 do nearly half. Perhaps, then, there are 75 to 100 publishing houses doing enough business to need additional employees from year to year...