Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Desserts. In London, members of the Board of Trade got three heavy packages with fuselike appendages, frantically cleared the office, opened the packages, found haggises (Scottish boiled puddings) inside...
...tall, dominating Dr. William S. Rainsford, rector from 1883 to 1905, St. George's became the first great "institutional" church in the U.S. Rector Rainsford knew how to get hard work as well as hard cash from the rich among his parishioners,* startled ecclesiastical mossbacks by organizing a trade school, sewing school, boys' club, men's club and summer camps under church auspices. Young clergymen coveted appointments as his assistants to learn this new technique of urban church-with-community-center. St. George's set a popular pattern...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...
Meanwhile, the strike of 28,006 sugarfield workers spread a pall over all commerce, trade and finance. In Hilo (pop. 23,353), drug sales dropped as much as 30%; dry goods, 33%; auto service, 60%. Plantations lost an estimated $21 million of business; workers lost almost $8 million in wages. Acres of unattended cane, which must be irrigated to survive, withered in the hot Hawaiian sunshine, and the world lost 180,850 tons of raw sugar. Estimates of the time it will take to put plantations back on production schedules ran up to four years...
Only one call was issued for the patrol wagon during the weekend, to confine two brawlers found alone in the large building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets at 10 o'clock Saturday night. They insisted they were working overtime on a trade publication, but could produce no satisfactory evidence to this effect...