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Word: tradings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotels balked at the clerks on the ground that they were "confidential employes." For nearly three months such famed hostelries as the Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont on Nob Hill, the St. Francis and the Palace (where died Warren G. Harding) have been closed to transient and local trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes & Settlements | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...started a series of crippling strikes, the company replied with an order to halt operations. Technically the order was one of "temporary suspension" but General Manager John H. Lofland declared that permanent discontinuance was "virtually certain." Civic groups in Newport (port of call) and Fall River wailed that tourist trade and employment levels would be hit. But there seemed no way to force the company to continue in business against its will. Trustees of the railroad asked court permission to sell or scrap its nine vessels-Priscilla, Commonwealth, Providence, Plymouth, Chester W. Chapin, City of Lowell, Pequonnock, New Haven, Mohawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of a Line | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...half, compared to $1,014,000 in the same period a year ago. Not only a sulphur company is Freeport: near Santiago, Cuba it is now producing 10,000 tons of 'manganese per month. After the manganese tariff was halved following the signing of the reciprocal trade pact with Brazil, a big manganese producer, Freeport's Cuban subsidiary languished until prices rose and another $500,000 was invested in new equipment. This year for the first time since 1934 Freeport's Cuban- American Manganese Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Younger than the Interstate Commerce Commission, older than the Securities & Exchange Commission but much broader in scope than either of them, the Federal Trade Commission is one of those arms of the Federal Government which are so confusing to immigrants and children, fitting nowhere into the neat scheme of legislative, executive and judicial functions. 'Like most of the big independent boards and bureaus, FTC exercises all three functions at once. Founded during another reform era - Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom - FTC is charged with 1) prevention °i unfair competition, 2) enforcement of certain sections of the Clayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FTC | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

BUCKSKIN BRIGADES-L. Ron Hubbard-Macaulay ($2). Indignant tale about the Northwest fur trade, featuring a white hero who fought on the side of the Blackfeet Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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