Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third, revolutionary method, Franklin Roosevelt proposed to build a "spillway" into the world market, in which the U. S. "fair share" of cotton trade would be 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 bales a year and in which its 1939 share will be about 3,500,000 bales. To accomplish that he suggested three definite steps...
General José Miaja, the "Savior of Madrid," his war minister, Segismundo Casado, political and trade union leaders and others who feared reprisals had fled to Valencia. Over the Madrid radio Foreign Minister Julian Besteiro, British-backed negotiator who was largely responsible for turning the face of Madrid from defiance to surrender, counseled: "Madrileños! . . . The moment has arrived for avoiding further bloodshed. . . . Let us all be calm and serene, at present, accepting the surrender of Madrid as the best means of salvation. . . . Viva España!" Thus ended, after two years, four months and 21 days...
Having built one scooter, Postman Smith is the smallest operator in a new automotive industry that has grown mightily within the past three years and is now engaged in trying to work itself out of the recreation-vehicle class. Visualized by scooter-makers is a flourishing trade in which one-lung puddle-jumpers will be used for messenger service, light deliveries, transportation of commuters from home to railroad station and back...
...trade it has been notorious for several years that the college business, what with sluggish enrollment and a drying up of endowment sources, is bad. Big, well-heeled colleges and universities and a few progressive institutions are prosperous, but many a small college does not know where its next student is coming from. Last fortnight Trentwell Mason White of Boston's Curry School (a small college) reported a buyers' market in colleges. In an article in The Commentator, "Colleges for Sale," he related his findings...
Bibliophiles are responsible for Bruce Rogers' reputation as "a limited editions man." But expensive limited editions, such as his Montaigne and Oxford Bible, account only indirectly for Bruce Rogers' influence on U. S. and British bookmaking. Far more influential were the trade editions he designed during his 17 years with Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. More concrete is his influence on such disciples as Milton Click, chief designer for Viking Press, whose books are among the most attractive now published. "B. R." is not particularly interested in de luxe editions as such. Of his 400-odd books...