Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes the Americans met and played tennis with upper-class Haitians at the swank Turgeau Club. And businessmen with a stake in Haitian foreign trade watched closely last week as President Dumarsais Estime dropped nationalist leaders from his Cabinet. But mostly the escapists lived far above and remote from the impoverished millions of the black republic. Their chief worry: that other Americans would come to Haiti, run up prices, put an end to paradise...
...useful tricks of their tricky trade, Broadway columnists slip the names of saloonkeepers and cafe owners into their paragraphs. Last week in Boston, newsmen noticed that the name of Saloonkeeper Toots Shor had been mentioned by five syndicated columnists on one day. They hastily formed the Society for the Prevention of the Mention of the Name of Toots Shor. First resolve: to blue-pencil the name for six months...
After five years of flood, the tide in retail trade seemed about to turn last week. Sales were still enormous (see Earnings), and the upcoming Christmas shopping binge would keep them high, but more & more sales clerks heard two long forgotten phrases: "How much is it?" and "No thanks." All over the U.S. there were more & more signs that the sellers' market was turning into a buyers' market because 1) prices were too high or 2) the free-&-easy spenders of the first postwar rush had run out of money...
...Pride's buyer, Eddie Williams, president of Kansas City's Williams Meat Co., which has been buying junior champions for 25 years, wasn't buying meat alone. He was buying publicity. T. O. Pride will be exhibited at hotel and restaurant trade conventions until Christmas. Then Williams will slaughter him, give away the gold-plated steaks as presents to customers...
...Gomorrah-like conflagration, the new secretary, Louis Croteau, embarked on a policy that conceded to Evil on short-run objectives, but went down the line when it came to the greater dangers. These were, and are, according to Croteau, commercialized gambling, professional and simon-pure prostitution, the narcotics trade, and obscenity...