Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act all stood criminally indicted for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935 ... to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in ... ten States of the Middle West...
...artificial limbs themselves. Last week when the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America met on the 18th floor of Chicago's La Salle Hotel for their 18th annua convention, more than half of the 100-odd delegates were able simultaneously to represent their companies and their stock in trade. During the two-day 'conclave activity was evenly divided between discussing the serious problems before the industry and outdoing the other fellow at such rigorous tests of artificial limb ability as dancing, skipping rope, knotting neckties...
...limbs a year. To succeed him the delegates last week chose 50-year-old Clyde Aunger, who at 16 lost a leg in a trolley car accident. In business for himself in San Francisco since 1911, he was taken to Australia during the War to teach his trade. President Aunger's pride is a music box in the calf...
More colorful than either old President Spievak or new President Aunger is Philadelphia Limb Manufacturer Charles Harris Davies who has been minus part of his left leg since a coal mine accident when he was a boy, now does a thriving trade in aluminum limbs, has branches as far away as Argentina. He irks his confreres by being flamboyant, stealing publicity from the convention. This year, to circumvent him, the convention appointed a publicity committee. But, while the more serious minded of the delegates sat down to ponder such questions as whether they were professionals or business...
...Balish's first partner was a truant officer. A poverty-stricken boy from Manhattan's East Side, Ben at the age of ten worked up a thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved...