Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trade Agreements Sirs...
...paid by the officers in charge, and many second string debaters have been cut off in the bud and denied the chance to parade their wares at more modest encounters in and about the college. Coupled to this has been a lack of available coaching from experts in the trade, and thus many who would like to compete in minor and informal engagements have been altogether discouraged from trying...
...Agitated in the steel trade last week was an embargo on exports of scrap-iron and steel, which is now selling at about $23 per ton, more than 50% above the price a year ago and the highest quotation since 1923; and sending up the price of domestic steel production. In steelmaking, scrap is as important a source of raw material as iron ore. So heavy is the movement of scrap to U. S. seaports that many a railroad has had to refuse further shipments until their yards are cleared of present congestion...
...Brettenham House, he speaks only when spoken to. last week, entitled to speak only when spoken to, was President Albert L. Viles of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, which is the nearest thing to a trade "institute" individualistic U. S. rubbermen will tolerate. Had he been asked, Mr. Viles would have told the committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies...
...gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." It was at about this time that one of Noel's fellows imparted to him the facts of life. True to his trade as always, he made a tragic entry into his mother's room, cried: "Mother, I have lost my innocence!" The audience laughed...