Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...level of crudity and indecency that would doubtless bring flushes of shame to the most unblushing Parisian chorine, much more to Manhattan's polyglot population with its admixture of northern blood. Succumbing to their own ambition for spotlights and publicity and big box-office appeal, the leaders of the trade have made too much noise, and no less an authority than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long as Mr. Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop to the evil have spoken...
...complaint, however, the Government went far beyond allegations of monopoly and restraint of trade in the U. S., charging Alcoa with virtually rigging the entire world market, through its interests or the interests of its affiliates in foreign aluminum. Motive for this was alleged to be the company's desire to keep foreign prices high enough to discourage invasion of its U. S. preserve. Fifty years ago aluminum sold for $8 per Ib. Today it is 20?. Singled out by Attorney General Cummings was the fact that Alcoa hiked the price 1? last March just about the time...
Instead the Bond Club called upon the logical man to make an authoritative rebuttal, the head of their tight little trade body-President Edward Bigelow Hall of the Investment Bankers Association of America...
...Myron C. Taylor. Without attempting to evaluate them the magazine declared that the only two rumors that could not be summarily dismissed were that the settlement had been hastened by 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt or 2) Walter Runciman of Britain's Board of Trade, who was in the U. S. at the time and might have hinted that rearmament orders would be withheld until U. S. steelmasters could assure continuous delivery...
...Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...