Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return call. To keep U.S. face, Washington's plain citizens would have to step out of character and match, or better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade and even New York's master greeter, Grover Whalen, to plan a spectacle that Latin American and even Hollywood itself might whistle...
...last week, Jim's-strike was famous all over the world as the oldest strike in Eire's trade-union history. Sailors from ports Jim never heard of often write to ask him how it's coming on. Every year Britain's newspaper boys come over to get a birthday-celebration spread in the Sunday features. The publicity Jim got at the eighth birthday party gave his business such a spurt that Downey's is closed two days a week now for lack of stock. "Sure the extra rest will do the boys no harm...
This week the vote so far stood 470-to-89 in Matchan's favor. Don Matchan was pretty sure he'd win, but just in case, he had hedged his bet. In the trade paper Editor & Publisher last week he ran a for-sale ad: "Publisher retiring because of disagreement with business community...
...harvest continued at Grasse this week, the prospects of the French perfume trade were not as pretty as the blossoms. Of the many ingredients required to make men sniff with interest, the fields of Grasse produce only a few, and not enough of those. Citronella, civet, vetivert, santalol, ambergris, patchouli and a long list of other exotic products had to be imported from abroad, and they were still not arriving in France in anything like prewar quantities. Prices were staggering; a kilo (2.2 pounds) of musk is now 100,000 francs compared with 9,000 prewar...
...find a few fenders bumping into each other, that's all," prophesied Judge Edward A. Counthan, counsel for the Cambridge Taxi Company, as he commented on yesterday's City ruling which threw former private taxi stands open to all back trade...