Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout Sally Page of El Paso appeared with trade goods consisting of $2,000 worth of repudiated Mexican money...
While Congress was having its busiest days of the year last week, the U. S. State Department was doing almost as well. By week's end, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had: 1) announced an important trade pact with Soviet Russia. 2) proposed a U-Sail-It warship renting service for South American republics...
...trade agreement, Russia will increase guaranteed purchases from the U. S. from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 in the next twelve months. In return, the U. S. will grant the Soviet Union most-favored-nation commercial treatment for the first time. Unfavorable reaction to the new pact last week came from the Pennsylvania Coal industry whose United Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special...
...London yachtsmen "to promote seamanship and the improvement of sailing vessels," it has 250 members (including 19 women) who cheerfully pay 100 guineas entrance fee, 100 guineas a year, has headquarters in a turreted fortress built by Henry VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America's Cup for Britain. Furious with the Committee, King Edward reputedly summoned the Commodore, asked...
...himself with resource and concentration worthy of a more respectable cause, last week Michael Strauss Jacobs finally emerged at the pinnacle of the prizefight business. No one in the business was at all surprised, for the man who taught the late Tex Rickard more than one trick of the trade has for years been climbing the ladder of his chosen profession like a Horatio Alger hero...