Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have increased this year and continue to increase during Britain's five-year Rearmament program. It was to soak the profiteers. In his first weeks as Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain was harassed by more high-powered letters of complaint and suggestion personally signed by top bigwigs of British trade, industry and finance than he had received during his whole long career as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The final result last week, after anxious daily conferences between Mr. Chamberlain and Sir John, was "Simple Simon...
...starved German veterans meet a troop of Yankees who trade their canned foods for hat buttons, instruct Soldier Tjaden (Slim Summerville) in the U. S. art of gum-chewing (see cut). In the square of his native Klosterburg, frail Lieutenant Ludwig (Richard Cromwell) is stripped of his insignia by revolutionary ruffians. Romping Willy (Andy Devine) disperses the gang with an apple which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking...
...ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying to buy the sanatorium for use as a casino-it all adds up to nothing at all except superlative entertainment. A gag sequence omitted but photographed for advertising purposes was one in which Horse-Doctor Groucho plied his trade on a horse that fitted perfectly into the Marx family...
...Charles D. White, mindful that ice-cream and newspaper vendors are forbidden beach concessions, broadly hinted that beach artists are unlawful trespassers, have "no more right to do business on the beach than anyone else." What had aroused Mayor White was the sand sculptors' latest elaboration of their trade: making exhibits so big and permanent that they can live in them...
...breadbasket, it leaves the equivalent of the entire spring wheat for export -according to the Board's best guess, between 175,000,000 and 200,000,000 bu. Because the critical month of May had been kind to winter wheat, brokers on the Chicago Board of Trade were pretty well prepared for the Crop Reporting Board's estimate. Next day, however, despite reports of black rust in Kansas, the price of July wheat dropped from...