Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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April 1927-Tide, an advertising trade paper, started by TIME Inc. Sold, November...
Pits & Hotel Rooms. Even though banned everywhere but in Florida, the "sport" goes on all over the U.S.-in hotel rooms and in portable pits in barns or pine groves. The sport supports four trade magazines, jammed with announcements of fights and advertisements of gaffs, sparring muffs, conditioning coops...
...used car trade, a boomtown bonanza since 1945, was settling back into being just a business. And for the moment, at least, business was not very good. Since the first of the year, used car prices have fallen between 10 and 20%. Last week, even with lower prices, most used car lots were jammed with bright, shiny secondhand jobs, and sales were pretty much at a standstill...
Trigger-tempered Max Hirsch, 68, a horse trainer by trade, said he wasn't interested in the $50,000 prize money. He just wanted to beat "that horse." He felt so strongly about Armed, 1947's horse of the year, that he couldn't even mention his name. Max had been maneuvered into running his Assault against Armed one day last September when Assault had "only three legs...
Died. James Herbert McGraw, 87, founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing empire (38 trade magazines and the largest technical book publishing house in the world); after long illness; in San Francisco. In 1885, Schoolteacher McGraw joined the American Railway Publishing Co., later bought an interest in it for $2,500. A spectacularly successful publisher for 50 years, he always claimed that he liked schoolteaching better...