Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships and humiliations to swerve him from his job of composing great music...
...business machine is likely to become more complicated than ever. The boom stage is not here yet but we are so near it that we have no time to lose in getting ready to meet it." Indeed, retailers are expecting to meet the boom this month in Christmas trade which will be the heaviest in dollars since 1929 and may exceed that year in volume of actual goods. In rural sections retail trade this autumn has already topped 1929. City counters have been jammed ever since the holiday shopping started after Thanksgiving, with a notable improvement in demand for quality...
Largest for any month in history except June 1933 and January 1929 was the consumption of raw cotton in October (646,000 bales). Yarn mills in the rayon trade have been at capacity for more than a year. In woolens, unfilled orders for men's wear goods have doubled since September, with prices...
...Down cracked the Federal Trade Commission last week with a complaint against virtually the entire U. S. automobile industry for "false and misleading representation." What the Commission objected to was the so-called "6% plan" for instalment buying. The Commission named four finance companies-General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co., Universal Credit Corp., Commercial Investment Trust Corp.-in its complaint...
...resurrection of the "Harvard Monthly" and the founding of the more specialized "Harvard Guardian" suggest a thorough examination of college publishing by undergraduates of a literary turn of mind. Backers of the vested interests along; Mount Auburn Street are most vitally affected, for the periodical trade will feel the keen edge of competition. Founders of the two new magazines would deny that their publications are competitive in intent or effect, and would emphasize the necessity of rounding out the picture of student activity. Yet competitive they are, since the potential reading public remains relatively stable and its budget for publications...