Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still one class of issues on which party lines hold as well as ever: questions of economic liberalism. Before the Senate was a bill, already passed by the House, to renew for another three years the President's power (due to expire in June) to make reciprocal trade agreements...
...launched a drive for $1,000,000 with the avowed intention of restoring Prohibition before 1945. Distillers who remember that the Volstead Act was preceded by just such an accumulation of Dry spots are ready to devote a large share of their considerable earnings* to the defense of their trade...
...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...
...whereas the price for years has been between $16 and $18 per ton. The sulphur companies argue that high taxes put them at a disadvantage in competition with foreign producers. Said a Texas Gulf man in Austin last week: "We have lost half our world trade in recent years." How much of this loss was directly traceable to a rigid price structure of their own making the U. S. sulphur producers have never volunteered...
...first directorial job of a onetime Fox cutter, named Harold Schuster, Wings of the Morning appears by liberal analysis to be a technicolor romance about the Epsom Derby. It takes a very liberal analysis to boil down the impudent, abstracted charm of the picture into this or any other trade category. Wings of the Morning glows with the kind of imagery which used to absorb the late Donn Byrne, upon some of whose stories it is based. Its tinted surfaces are vivid with gypsies, Irish hunters, girls in boys' clothing and effective landscape shots. Its structure, like that...