Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit to Brooks Brothers, swank old Manhattan retailers. Hart Schaffner & Marx's records were set for the wholesale clothing trade...
...April 19 issue of TIME with being the "first in the trade to adopt an 'all-wool' policy (1900)" and "first with the camel's hair coat (1912)" is not, apparently very well-founded in the history of the ready-made clothing business...
...unemployment compensation bill, they showed small concern for Labor and the masses-small political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules, creating an NRA-like code for automobile dealers, giving the State Railway Commission jurisdiction over trucking, providing State regulation of itinerant merchants and gasoline transporters. The Unicam chiefly distinguished itself from other State Legislatures in enacting only one freak statute: a section in a bill providing for licensing...
...decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time in the Swedish capital to discuss their ultimate aims-to get trade independence, to revert to their traditional neutrality, to maintain the democracy of the north. Though Denmark is one of Europe's most pacifist nations, the Danish Premier, bearded Social Democrat Thorvald Stauning, is beginning to see the sense of Sweden's dictum that disarmed neutrality is a practical...
...quiet of the evening--even as I saw them yesterday--when the old Italian draws water from the fountain for the young ones who were not sold, casting out the old to urchins playing in the street, and then puts to the shutters of his trade, might not then the more bold of the lot, feeling the strength of a kindred spirit, steal by the fragrance of their souls into that same room where lives the memory of him who loved them so well...