Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...
...FamiIiar to all housewives is the Knox trade-mark-a wide-eared calf. It was chosen to emphasize the fact that calves' bones, not pig bones, are used. Though it has been a popular belief ever since Noah Webster said so, horses' hoofs play no part in making gelatine...
...club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething with excitement. For Miss Jaffray has publicized her sex's textile troubles so completely that the Federal Trade Commission has just issued a set of rules causing headaches to everyone in the rayon business...
...manufacturing and distributing process. If a scarf is part silk, but mostly rayon, it must be labeled "rayon-silk." If it is mostly silk it is to be labeled "silk-rayon." Makers who have sought to avoid the stigma that sometimes is attached to the name rayon by concocting trade and process names like Celanese, Bemberg and acetate may still use them, but must also label the goods as rayon. Sample: "Bemberg-rayon...
...other fronts last week, labor in education also made news: ¶ In Manhattan the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, newly formed to promote the Catholic point of view in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions, quietly opened a free experimental school for workers in Fordham University's Woolworth Building quarters. To the press rushed Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, Fordham professor of ethics and loud foe of birth control and the press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which...