Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Foreign Office has always been a sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
...Nicholas passed into the hands of stocky, dynamic President Roy Walker of Educational Publishing Corp. Publisher Walker wanted it as a classroom adjunct to The Grade Teacher, trade journal for educators. Then last year Woolworth's began to look around for new magazines to replace the 5-&-10?store Tower Group, which had just sunk in a morass of financial trouble and scandal...
...Babson, who for almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts and prophecies about business, announced last week that so far as the U. S. economy is concerned "The war in Europe is unimportant. . . . the important thing is . . . what is going on in the Orient. Trade always has moved westward...
During Mr. Babson's absence, however, the war undoubtedly made a bigger impression on U. S. trade. For the first time in years many a firm has now more orders than it can fill in three months' full production. By last week U. S. Business had begun to ask "Here's the war boom-but where are the war orders...
...summer of 1938, earnest, acidulous President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers took a look at his industry. He saw that its 560 firms had a net loss of more than $10,000,000 in the preceding six months and he grew sarcastic. Soon the trade received from President Besse a three-page printed blast against price cutting and reckless competition...