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Word: tradings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instruments of Business. This time the little Czar's antagonists had seen him coming. The $250,000,000-a-year recording industry has been working overtime in recent weeks to pile up backlogs; there were trade estimates that some companies had built up a supply of unissued records for two or three years, that at least a year's supply of new popular tunes was already transcribed in Hollywood cinema libraries. And there was nothing to prevent repressing from old master records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Who's Going Out of Business? | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Retreat from the West | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Tunesmithing is a trade Mariaschin plies with ability neither to read nor play music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mariaschin Trots from Basketball Court to Music Mart with Own Tune | 10/22/1947 | See Source »

...Russian achievements have been large," declared Harris yesterday, "but the plain fact is that they haven't been quite as large as they say they've been." The international trade expert does not contend that the Soviet Government manipulates its statistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Asserts Marxists Will Get Space to Refute Report | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

...bought cheap and sold dear: "... a Cabot, a Derby, a Sears, an Endicott, a Peabody, a Crowninshield and many others. All represent First Family names today and yet all were men who, if not actually pirates, were at least vikings in their methods." If some were above the slave trade, "they were not averse to an occasional sally into the opium trade." Merchant T. Jefferson Coolidge confided to his "Day Book" that "money was the only 'real avenue' to social success in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston's Closed Corporation | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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