Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...same procedure, the U.S. (enjoying a two-for-one export balance in trade with Japan) could figure that Japan...
...penalty tariff on Japan's exports to the U.S. would hit the silk trade. Japan produces 75% of the world's raw silk, the U.S. consumes almost all of it, and neither can find an adequate market or source of supply elsewhere. U.S. women would suffer by paying more for silk stockings (half the world's silk sheathes their legs) and Japan would be threatened with permanent loss of part of her silk market to nylon, rayon and other synthetic U.S. yarns...
Missing from these trade figures, moreover, is an item vital to warring Japan. In the last two years she has sold the U.S. $415,209,648 worth of gold, $4,202,856 worth of silver. She is now reported to have only about $140,000,000 of gold on hand. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said he was taking a "fresh look" at gold and silver purchases from Japan...
...made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed private banks in London and Paris, been in the grain trade in Antwerp, written for financial magazines, ghost-written two books on economics. In all, he has made and lost three fortunes. His last flyer was olive groves in Spain...