Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degree Mason Franklin Roosevelt took a trowel in hand and with a dab of real mortar laid the cornerstone of the future home of the Federal Trade Commission (see p. 55), a structure known as the Apex Building because it will tip the triangle of Government buildings between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues...
...negotiations. It is a more or less open secret that one reason President Roosevelt was so generous last week was to enable Brazil to buy more U. S. goods and thus get along with less of the German goods she has been taking with some reluctance under the dubious trade-promoting schemes which Dr. Schacht works with his various kinds of German marks. This week Adolf Hitler openly revealed his displeasure at the Brazil-U. S. liaison, declared that Washington was "envious" of Germany's increased Brazilian trade, was trying to spoil Brazil's German cotton market...
With a trowel once wielded by that eminent revolutionist, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt' last week laid the cornerstone for a new Washington building which will house one of the President's favorite government bodies, the Federal Trade Commission. During most of its life the commission was housed in a scrubby Wartime structure on Constitution Avenue, a fact which the President said aroused his "deepest sympathy." The commission's new quarters, to be ready early next year, will be part of the vast new triangular pile of Government buildings on Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, halfway between...
India's jute trade, which the female Yules abhor, was seriously tied up last February when the native workers in 40 out of 69 burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year...
...stock picture of a Japanese traveler is an immaculate, youthful-looking, polite, poker-faced Oriental who goes about with a small, expensive camera taking photographs of fortifications, air fields and the like, collects trade secrets, lets nothing escape his foxy eyes, but rarely writes a travel book. Travel books by Japanese women are even rarer. Japanese Lady in Europe, the travel diary of a sort of Japanese Provincial Lady calling herself merely "a chatterbox," fits none of these specifications. Aside from its interest as the work of a Japanese observer, readers will find its pert, oblique commentaries on travel-worn...