Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association, led by young (30) Rev. Bernard J. Haan, rallied the town's oldsters to the antimovie cause...
...great deal of confidence. The House of Representatives' short-lived amendment to include Spain in ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS; showed that clearly. A great many people have suffered agonies of apprehension over the news. It caused instant repercussions within the Labor Party and the trade unions, most of which had been so painfully won to pro-American, anti-Soviet collaboration. Even though the actual deed is now canceled, its effects will be felt for a long time. One aftereffect here will be a revival of the deep-seated assumption that Americans are unpredictable and therefore difficult fellows to live...
...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
...August 1946, bought the Newport Rolling Mill at Newport, Ky. But Detrola's President C. Russell Feldman soon found that he still had a problem : he had no pig iron to make his steel. So, he told the committee, he made a deal with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati's David J. Joseph Sr., one of the big U.S. scrap dealers. For his scrap, Joseph got 8,254 tons of steel, and a tidy gross profit...
Johnny Presents. With an ear cupped to tobacco trade gossip-which had Philip Morris' sales slipping-President Alfred E. Lyon gave out a preliminary report of the 1947-48 fiscal year. Both gross and unit sales were up over the preceding year, said Al Lyon, thanks to a sharp increase in the last two months (last year's gross...