Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for the evacuation of sit-downers from five plants, two in Flint, two in Detroit, one in Anderson, Ind. General Motors agreed to the union's demand that it would not resume operations in these plants nor remove dies, tools, machines or materials (except for the export trade) during peace negotiations, which should meanwhile begin...
...that its difficulties arose from the fact that it tried to do too much. For example, it was unwise to expect the same agency to regulate the length of working hours, minimum wages, child labor and collective bargaining on the one hand and the complicated questions of unfair trade practices and business controls on the other...
...sugar his bitter purge, Critic Buck last week addressed these good words to Arizonans: "Arizona has the justifiable reputation of having a very desirable climate and because of this reputation enjoys a most favorable tourist trade. No one wishes to do anything which would interfere with this trade. The safest and surest method . . . would seem to lie in emphasizing the fact (when that stage of development has been reached when one can honestly do so) that Arizona is carrying on a thoroughly modern, well-balanced program for health protection and promotion insuring the health and happiness of its people...
...Manhattan, President Paul S. Willis of the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America responded acidly: "I am thoroughly familiar with the practice of trade puffing; but I have never seen national brands held up as a yardstick in this fashion. In my opinion, this practice falls into the category of unfair methods of competition...
Bumming is quite a trade around the Square of late. Yesterday two undergraduates were accosted by a well-dressed individual who announced that he made twenty-one dollars per week but would like two more dimes to help out this week, which, he avowed, was slightly behind on the quota...