Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involved. This antipathy has had its disastrous results in the form of foreign domination of the South American markets and the consequent loss of a huge field for exploitation to American producers. Great Britain, Germany, Japan--all have capitalized on this aversion and have built up strong traditions of trade in the past ten years; tradition which will be hard to overcome...
...Channing Ellsworth Sweitzer, the association's large, able, 48-year-old managing director, was this explanation: "The board of directors has submitted the resignation . . . effective immediately because of inadequate representation for retailing in the council of the Chamber and a lack of recognition of the importance of retail trade, which has an annual volume of approximately $35,000,000,000." Applauded Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record: "The C. of C. has misrepresented the businessmen of this country long enough. The C. of C. brought businessmen into unmerited disrepute by its short-sighted selfishness, its violent...
Among Chambermen the Dry Goods proposal for a little NRA would find little sympathy. Moreover, the Dry Goods Association has actually been on the Roosevelt bandwagon for a good part of the New Deal for the simple reason that the New Deal has been good for retail trade...
...fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution to U. S. humor has not been such jingles as her celebrated observation that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," but her relentless parodying of those mournful laments on lost love that are the stock-in-trade of most U. S. poetesses...
...other one of the two "so many benefits" that are adduced to prove the "Princetonian's" case, is the establishment of more interesting schedules. There is little wrong with the Harvard schedule at present--it is plenty hard enough. And who would want to trade the about-to-be abandoned Army and Navy for the mess of pottage obtainable by scheduling Columbia or Pennsylvania...