Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This little ditty, no less than 60 years old, is one of the meatiest definitions of short-selling ever penned. Last week as trading in May grain contracts drew to a close on the Chicago Board of Trade, the economic profundity of the Gould definition was clearly demonstrated once again. Speculators had sold corn they did not own for delivery on the last trading day in May. Of course, the speculators hoped that in the meantime they could buy back the corn they had sold at lower prices. But instead of going down corn went up, up, up. By last...
...Passed a joint resolution introduced by Nebraska's Norris appropriating $150,000 for investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of propaganda circulated by private utilities against public ownership, after adopting an amendment offered by Utah's King broadening its scope to include an investigation of propaganda used by Government agencies against private ownership. Sent it to the House...
...Trade Unions- After a three-week session of the Central Trade Union Council, Director Zharikov of the Bureau of Foreign Workers, Director Kotov, lately chief of the Social Insurance Bureau, Assistant Director Antoshkin of the Scientific Research Institute and Comrade Miliutan, editor of a trade union magazine-all four of them prominent trade union officials-were arrested on charges of "malfeasance, Trotskyism and sabotage." The Council further charged the trade unions as a whole with neglecting their main duty, the social welfare of the worker-supervising sanatoriums, sick benefits, old age benefits.* A Stalin-inspired ultimatum thundered that the trade...
...picture. Goldwyn ignored them, had a new script written by Joseph Anthony, Manuel Seff and David Hertz, hired John Blystone to direct, changed the title from Princess and Pauper to The Woman's Touch and finally to the present one. Commenting on these facts, Hollywood Reporter, cinema trade daily, said: "Sam Goldwyn never has an easy time with any of his endeavors because he goes at them the hard...
...potent weapon in (he war on Bigness. The words of Justice Roberts meant that through tax discrimination one State could strike at a whole corporation, not simply that part of the corporation doing business within its boundaries. Said Henry Ward Beer, old-time trial counsel to the Federal Trade Commission: "The long advocated amendment of our anti-trust laws to prevent the growth of monopoly has been effectively accomplished through the means of taxation...