Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performer, manager and attorney and, for the first time, saw this expression used with reference to entertainment on the stage. In order to check my doubts as to the validity of this expression, I spoke with several people including a theatrical press agent, a reporter on Variety, the theatrical trade paper, a theatrical manager and several theatrical agents. None of these people had ever heard this expression used. We are all acquainted with the expression "flesh entertainment" which applies to entertainment provided by living performers...
Died. John Robertson Dunlap, 80, retired founder of trade and scientific magazines (India Rubber World, Hardware, Engineering Magazine, Industrial Management, Industry Illustrated); in New York City...
...Washington last week, the U. S. Patent Office issued to the Bob Feller Co. of Cleveland Trade Mark Certificate of Registration No. 390,512 for the words "Hi-Feller," to use with picture of Bob Feller "on nonalcoholic, maltless beverages," and Certificate No. 389,499 for the words "Good Feller," for use "on candies and candy bars." In Cleveland last week, Pitcher Bob Feller, 18-year-old prodigy of the Cleveland Indians who has been out of action almost since the season's start with a sore right arm, reported for action after a week's treatment...
Whether or not the Treasury price is ever cut, the threat of a cut would be a potent bargaining point in negotiations for a U. S.-British trade pact or in hastening an international stabilization agreement. Either a world economic conference or a restriction scheme for gold mining is more likely as a method of meeting the gold problem than a deflationary revision in gold prices...
Illinois insurance laws have been flayed for years by insurance experts. Up to 1933 the enforcement was worse than the laws. Officially entrusted to a special director of the Department of Trade & Commerce, control over insurance companies frequently fell into the hands of lawyer-politicians who were not above doing a good turn at the expense of policyholders. The extent to which Illinois had become an insurance playground became abruptly clear in 1932, when eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash...