Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amateurs in the trade, thinking to circumvent John Law, were outlining plans for indoor operations late last night. Such "hysteria" was ridiculed, however by experts in the business...
Through it they hope to eliminate discrimination in U.S. education; they hope to set up student governments in schools lacking them. By using the N.S.A. as a coordinator, the students in the nation can trade suggestions on curriculum; can unite to work for federal aid to secondary education; can organize a nation wide job-seeking service
...carriage trade of Beverly Hills, Calif, was greatly taken with Mr. Maurice Monte Reingold, the fashionable jeweler and clubman. He had the greying good looks of a man of 56 who keeps himself in condition. He peddled costly kickshaws behind a fagade of glass and pink & grey marble-only a thimble toss from Dress Designer Adrian's atelier. To the Hollywood elite he was just plain Moe. But to the cops he was a high-class gonif.* Last week they proved...
...that did not stop the Federal Trade Commission. Last week it charged Philco with running "a lottery . . . stifling and suppressing competition in the manufacture and sale of radios." The spiff system would probably be tested in court...
Inspired by the discovery of paintings showing the fur trade, "Across the Wide Missouri" follows the climax and downward spiral of a gigantic enterprise. Beaver, a million coats and hats, was the lure. From 1832 to 1838 the industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...