Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank of New York (including myself) ; YMCA and YWCA workers; trade representatives; and George Sokolsky, editor [at .that time! of the Russian Daily News...
...Surbaya zoo has long had with the San Diego, Calif, zoo friendly give-&-take relations similar to those which the Antwerp zoo has with the New York Zoological Park (TIME, Aug. 16). They trade rare specimens. The anoas certainly were rare; only four have ever been in the U. S. So the Surbaya zoo promptly put their anoas, accompanied by an old keeper named Topas Tenney, on board the Dutch liner Manoeran and packed them off to the U. S. The anoas traveled well. Every day they had their regular diet of hay and grain, same as any other...
Director Hitchcock announced he found U. S. food excellent, especially the ice cream. Said he, "Such ice cream I would not trade for a steak & kidney pudding, a boiled silversmith with carrots & dumplings, or a Kentish chicken pudding. In fact, I like...
Thus comfortably in the clear, President Strohmeyer felt free to try an idea that had buzzed in his head for two years. Eying the booming counter and cafeteria business during Depression, he concluded that Childs, with its managerial overhead already provided for, could offer the cafeteria trade a little more luxury at the same prices. Host, Inc. will try to do so. Swankly modernistic in design, Hosts will have concealed kitchens, service at U-shaped counters. Food is to be identical with Childs food but with less variety and no table-d'hote meals. Prices will be about...
...possible to escape from an enemy carrying a two-edged sword but not from the interference of a well-meaning woman." Such Wodehousian sentiments garbed in Confucian terms are the unmistakable trade-mark of Ernest Bramah (E. B. Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately...