Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appreciate them. Does International Correspondence School have a course in interpretation? And just how did your reporter arrive at the conclusion that Leonardo da Vinci would have smacked his chops at the selection? The great Italian gave us paintings which could be appreciated by the carriage trade and the stevedores alike...
...Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about a new trade treaty with his fatherland, and to give a series of lectures at Harvard and Columbia. A kindly, wire-haired Socialist of 64, Dr. Koht lectured at Harvard seven years ago, predicted much earlier, in a book, Capital and Labor in America, that the U. S. was drifting toward Socialism. Said...
...Evans is deeply tanned from the polo he plays frequently and well, when. not traveling on business. Born in Bartow, Ga., he went to work in the Maxwell Motors assembly line at 15, at 18 started night school in the Georgia School of Technology, was in the used car trade for himself by 1924, went broke in the Florida boom collapse in 1926. Standing penniless on a Miami street corner, he saw a man trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped at a garage, sold...
...long-extinct U. S. Motor Co. and in 1913 took over the management of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, then called the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Thus occupied ever since, he has seen the A. M. A. grow into one of the nation's most potent trade groups. One of Al Reeves's jobs as A. M. A. vice president and general manager is running the annual U. S. Automobile Show. Last week Impresario Reeves was up to his fenders in work preparing Manhattan's hulking Grand Central Palace for the opening this week of the 38th...
Wired Radio, Inc., out of which Muzak Corp. grew in 1934, had been incorporated in 1922, was about ready to start opera tions when Depression intervened. Mean while, similar enterprises achieved an enormous success in Europe. The process (whose U. S. name of Muzak is a trade mark perversion of Music) consists merely of playing transcribed music in a central bureau and delivering it by telephone wires to subscribers who hear it through loud speakers. New York City at present is the sole U. S. spot to enjoy Muzak and ordinary citizens enjoyed it there long before tycoons, because...