Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Herb Caen knew the usual trade practice: brag about your right guesses, if any, and maybe nobody will notice the others. One day last week he devoted his entire daily space in the San Francisco Chronicle to a recital of his April errors. Sample error: that fine little crack about the canned peas served at the national frozen-food convention banquet had been run without checking; and it just wasn't so. Caen promised to continue "Writing the Wrongs" once a month. "In the course of hacking together 20 or 25 items a day," he explained...
...acres with the big warehouse on them looked just like any other part of New Orleans' busy river front. But last week they became something very special and mighty important to New Orleans' world-trading citizens. The 20 acres officially became a free port, the only one in the U.S. outside of New York's foreign-trade zone. New Orleans, now busting its buttons in its zeal to build up its port, second biggest in the U.S. in dollar volume, hoped that its foreign-trade zone would lure ships to the mouth of the Mississippi...
Next week New Orleans will start work on another business getter: a $1,200,000 International Trade Mart which will be a five-story showcase for U.S. and foreign goods...
...Jewell's first project was the city's International House, now in its second year. There foreign businessmen are supplied free with bilingual secretaries, home-town papers, temporary offices and all the comforts of a good club. Attached to the House is an aggressive, canny staff of trade promoters who last year helped 2,688 U.S. and foreign traders find new business. Sample deal: International House showed Southern Coach Manufacturing Co. of Evergreen, Ala., which had never exported, how to sell $750,000 worth of buses to Colombia and Argentina. As a result of the program, the tonnage...
...Carrolls (Warner) is a melodrama about a daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of the trickiest actresses in the trade-Elisabeth Bergner. With the less versatile Barbara Stanwyck in the Bergner role, the story is merely thin and shabby...