Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...islands was by last week nearing the end of its job: to examine political and economic means of arranging the transition to complete Philippine independence with the least possible discomfort to U. S. industries and Philippine inhabitants. The Committee, mostly composed of specialists on the subject of Far Eastern trade problems, met in Washington last spring, held a series of hearings in San Francisco before leaving for Manila in July. In November it will be ready to draw up for Presidents Roosevelt and Quezon the report that will help decide how and when Philippine Independence is to be effected...
...Imports. In the first six months of 1937 total U. S. exports rose 20% over the same period last year, but exports to Japan rose 77% to $165,000,000 and exports to China rose 50% to $31,000,000, indicating that both warring factions anticipated trouble. Last week trade to Japan had suffered little, as was shown by the New York silk market, where prices declined on the belief that imports from Japan would continue to arrive on schedule. But exports to China were way off, since Shanghai normally handles more than 50% of China's foreign trade...
...time Bowman got to Tampico a local group had already started a steam laundry, so he bought a little motor boat to pull barges. When this enterprise failed, he and another young American chugged off to Veracruz, conceived the idea of revolutionizing the mahogany trade by floating mahogany logs down the rivers to the Gulf. The two adventurers struggled for several days getting a mahogany log out of the forest into a small stream, where, since mahogany is heavier than water, it immediately sank...
...rubber product combined with hydrogenized vegetable oils and synthetic resins. "Blony," which is flavored with what Bubbleman Bowman calls "fruit characteristic," weighs 210 grains and advertises "Three Big BITES for a penny," has made Gum, Inc. the biggest firm in the U. S. catering exclusively to the penny gum trade...
Yelling "Foul!" before a glove had been laid on him, Trade-Publisher Martin Quigley (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily) loudly proclaimed that anyone who took cinema seriously was simply being sham & vexatious. "It is the industry's judgment and mine," sparred Publisher Quigley, "that the entertainment film belongs in the province of entertainment and nowhere else. If there are others who wish to use this medium for a message which they imagine the world is yearning to hear, the obvious course for them is to get a camera and go to work." Bouncing out of the opposite corner...