Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion from it by scoring some particularly huge "success"-such as recovering German colonies or absorbing Austria. Up to 1914 the total number of Germans resident in the Kaiser's colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with all German colonies in 1914 amounted to only 1% of Germany's total trade. Today such facts of economic history are flung by Germans on the scrap heap. In Hamburg last week an especially vehement colony-demanding speech was made by General Göring. Roared he: "Germany...
Once publisher of the newspaper trade journal Fourth Estate, organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, 51-year-old Harry Newman is best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen...
This infuriates many a would-be wool buyer who cannot understand the 10? more he must pay to get the raw product. Actually, of course, there is no such direct connection between the future price and the spot price. As on other commodity markets, wool dealers trade in futures largely as a hedge to protect their wool inventories, virtually never make actual delivery in the commodity itself...
...Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong opposition to the idea from outlying provinces which dislike the thought of their trade suffering while Paris gains...
...York World's Fair is a bird of a very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration. New York City is crashing through with about $25,000,000, New York...