Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battles between Freshmen and Sophomores; many educational institutions for young ladies make May Day festivities an impressive annual affair. Thus it goes; every college perpetuates the traditions which it finds most suitable and enjoyable, and these same traditions typify and give the college a sort of earmark or trade label by which it may be known...
...thinks that shipping, not selling, is what embroiled the U. S. in the War. When the great peace tide set in two years ago and extremists began talking of slamming trade doors tight shut against another war, he suggested cash & carry as an alternative. Contemptuously, brilliant "Bernie" Baruch calls his cash & carry principle "scuttle & run." He wants peace, but his real idea of how to keep it is to have the U. S. so well-prepared to fight that no nation will dare to antagonize it. No man knows better than the onetime chairman of the War Industries Board that...
Though almost all its traffic and trade are eastwest, Denver has only a north-south airline. To get to either coast a Denverite has a choice of flying north for 97 mi. on Wyoming Air Service to Cheyenne and United Air Lines' transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which...
Died. John Garland Pollard, 65, Virginia's benign onetime (1930-34) Governor, onetime (1920-21) Federal Trade Commissioner, chairman since 1934 of the Board of Veterans' Appeals; of bronchopneumonia; in Washington...
...Avenue garment district gave him his big idea. With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...