Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain wood lots that ring Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, it was Christmas-tree harvest time. During the summer, lanky Bruce Swinamer, 43, had been out spotting likely trees for the trade. Last week, his boss, a New Yorker named Willis ("Christmas Tree") Clark, checked into the Cornwallis Inn at Kent-ille, got set for the cutting of 125,000 balsams for the city market...
...said her health demanded it). "There's nothing wrong with me," she informed the press, "except 45 years of my husband's 16-hour working day. ... He was terrifically tired. . . ." On top of that, Clayton hinted that he might head the delegation to the World Trade Conference in Havana this month...
...nation's commodity and stock markets showed that they did not worry alone. The day after President Truman called a special session of Congress and stirred up talk of more commodity trading controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), all grain prices on the Chicago Board of Trade skittishly dropped the permissible limit. They dragged many other commodities down with them. The New York Stock Exchange also had its worst one-day break in a month. The Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 1.97 points to 182.53, losing all the gains it had made in two weeks. With profits at such reassuring highs...
Spectacular Frames. New aluminum spectacle frames were put on sale by Manhattan's Tura Co. The new frames (trade name: Turalite) are slightly lighter than thick plastic ones, need no rivets, solder or cement, and are virtually unbreakable. They come in twelve colors impregnated in the metal. Present production: 8,000 a week. Price...
...American Past is history gift-wrapped for readers who ordinarily find the subject unattractive. A picture story of U.S. politics and personalities from 1775 to 1945, the book is presumably (at $10) a carriage-trade item, but Publishers Simon and Schuster expect it to sell like crêpes suzettes...