Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumblings were heard first from Eliot House and the Law School, where green-eyeshaded sharps are went to congregate of a Wednesday eve for a session of poker. The reliable Jersey House, traditional entrepreneur of these lightfingered scholars, reports a sharp decline in trade since Police Chief John R. King's men moved...
...figures he can make a trade, a strictly no cash deal, before the season opens. Dis C1878 guy sez Yale gotta football player name a Wayne Johnson a couple a years ago from Harvard. Maybe he wants a trade a scholar, one of them chemistry fellas fer instance, fer a new fullback...
With a roll of drums and a rattle of discharge buttons, a magazine called Salute went out to capture the veterans' trade in March 1946. Its staff, like its flavor, came from Yank and Stars and Stripes. But its G.I. appeal wore thin: it seemed that the most appealing thing to veterans was being a civilian again. This week in its February issue, Salute (circ. around 230,000) took off its uniform. With a new staff and a new idea, it had changed into a "picture magazine...
...hour Dr. Leake listened to evidence presented by the bureau's Robert Bauer. Bauer showed him laboratory records with the names of physicians, explained some of the tricks of the trade. Firms, sometimes appointed by doctors as "agents," had charged the patient double and remitted the 100% overcharge to the patient's physician. Doctors had joined "cooperative" laboratories and received dividends based on the amount of business they sent...
...neighbor's happiness usually lay, Stevenson believed, "altogether in the field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles, the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumphs in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from what they chose. . . . To look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales...