Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After (Warner Brothers). Five days before this picture's Manhattan opening, discreet advertisements appeared in the columns of all papers except the chaste Times. They read: "If it's love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from...
Down the Ohio River floated a skiff manned by two Negroes, carrying a young couple and their baby to a new home farther west. The long-haired young man, whose weathered face belied his trade, was a storekeeper with a passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars...
...Scrap dealers consider it an insult to be called junkmen, have their own national trade body, the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc. Nonspecialist dealers who are equally touchy are organized in the National Association of Waste Materials Dealers...
With offices in London, Paris and Brussels, Dr. Tenenbaum's aids maintain eternal vigilance over trade relations with Germany to spot violations of the boycott. If the boycott council ferrets out evidence of such a violation, the firm involved is asked for an explanation. If none is forthcoming, the council pickets its offices, publishes its name and offense, does its best to prevent customers from trading there until the firm agrees to arbitrate...
These sentiments, which would leave many a businessman cold, when enunciated by U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Chicago last week before the annual American Finance Conference were greeted with thunderous applause. For the American Finance Conference is the trade association of independent automobile financing companies and currently it is in a tremendous stew over what it calls the ''monopolistic coercion" practiced by the four big financing companies owned or tied up with automobile companies...