Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reformation, but dwelt on mitigating circumstances. One cause of the rising public debt was the sterilization of gold. The Federal Government has borrowed to buy no less than $1,050,000,000 in gold coming from abroad in order to prevent its exercising an inflationary effect on U. S. trade. Since the Government has this gold to sell when foreigners want it back, it has a billion-dollar asset. Subtracting this amount, the debt would stand at $35,350,000,000 or $324,000,000 more than he set last January for the top debt figure...
...strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp of the Bahamians, the barbed wire fence of the Texans, the Paul Bunyan display of the Wisconsin Scouts, the Florida encampment hung with Spanish moss. All day, every day the tent cities echoed with the wrangling...
...times changed, the flamboyant Hearst-Pulitzer technique was outgrown by the Manhattan morning public. The more sedate and reliable Times, Herald and Tribune crowded the World and the American down upon the subway trade...
Then came the tabloid News to take away that trade. Hearst started the tabloid Mirror in answer, but he was really competing with himself. That the American outlived the World by six years may have been some satisfaction, however expensive, but Mr. Hearst's deepest publishing sensibilities must have been involved by the thought of his cheap Mirror outliving the pride of his glorious youth...
...Publishers Doubleday, Doran have done Author Roberts proud. Besides the trade edition they published a limited (1,050 copies) edition in two volumes, of which the second contains documents on which the story is based. Price...