Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...
...journalism a profession, a trade, a game or a 6% investment? H. L. Mencken once gave his answer: "A journalist still lingers in the twilight zone, along with the trained nurse, the embalmer, the rev. clergy and the great majority of engineers. . . . [He] remains, for all his dreams, a hired man . . . and the hired man is not a professional...
...converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...
...Washington last week to learn about the Government's export controls imposed on Jan. 2. For 1¼ hours, they sat in Commerce's walnut-paneled auditorium listening to an explanation of the new rules by Francis E. Mclntyre,.deputy director of the Office of International Trade. Just before the party ended, the exporters got a press release. It tersely announced that the program which they had been discussing was being reinforced by a drastic new program, effective March 1. From that date on, said the release, every shipment to Europe, Russia and a dozen other areas (about...
...coast to coast, sniffing for the scent of a grey market in building materials. All over the country, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, vice chairman of the pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities of lath, presumably kept it out of normal channels...