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Word: tradings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales increased, William ("Trade") and Andrew ("Mark") became so famed that bearded men all over the U.S. were greeted by one name or the other, according to the shape of their crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Black Batches & Beards | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...always like to see Harvard boys riding in boxears," he noted gleefully as he flourished his nightstick. "They have such hard heads. Just the thing to keep me in practice for the Florida trade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Pencils, No More Books: Cambridge Exodus Proceeds by Land, Sea and Air as Spring Recess Opens | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

Moguls of many of the local pinball emporia, however, sharply disagreed, as they contemplated their vanishing trade. "It's all a communistic plot to run as eat of business," one of them said. "This vacation stuff is all wrong. Why they can get all the vacation they used any afternoon at the pinball machines. Why, what has New York got that we haven't? Chicago? Detroit? Miami? Nothing, Nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Pencils, No More Books: Cambridge Exodus Proceeds by Land, Sea and Air as Spring Recess Opens | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

Although admitting that "the soda business has never been better," Mahoney has been forced to take the fountain out in order to handle his greatly increased prescription trade. "We have had the confidence of our customers," said Mahoney, "and we must acknowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billings & Stover Tear Out Soda Fountain To Handle Expanded Prescription Trade | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

...really good movies, like really good literature, are never so "literary" as this or so full of highly polished posturings. Director Lewin also sets himself the impossible task of trying to clean up a naughty story for the family trade. Because adultery is taboo to Hollywood's censors, Angela Lansbury is represented as a widow and Mr. Sanders does not take up with Miss Dvorak until she is a widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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