Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Frost, whose crossroads general store out on Highway 31 did $68,000 worth of business last year, figures trade will be a little off this year, but not much. Said Bill: "Nobody is worrying much. It's only when you're in debt that you start worrying, and I don't know anyone who is in debt." Crop prospects are good. Said Farmer Horton: "I don't look for prices to go a whole lot lower. We're not alarmed." "Nope, things don't look too bad," echoed Mrs. Horton, shutting the door...
...cheering House of Commons, President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson announced, after more than seven threadbare years, that clothes rationing was ended forthwith. Mr. Wilson publicly tore up his own little red ration book. Demonstrating its ability to get vernally cute, the Board of Trade had called the derationing of clothes "Operation Godiva." Stores braced themselves for a furious stampede of British Godivas clamoring to buy new clothes. But it never came; instead, there was a rush on towels, sheets, handkerchiefs and underwear. High prices kept customers from splurging on clothes, rationed or not. Sagittarius jingled...
This event has two objectives. It gives the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, which pays some of the participating teams' expenses, a chance to increase its tourist trade. On the other hand, rugger enthusiasts can play against the best opposition in the East...
Another Commerce Department official, Charles C. Concannon '11, a division chief in that Office of International Trade, added that men who approach the top rauks of federal civil service receive a retirement allowance of from $4800 to $5000 per year...
Charles C. Concannon of the Office of International Trade, H. B. McCoy, Director of the Office of Domestic Commerce, and Christian M. Ravndal, Director General of the Foreign Service, will all speak at this evening's meeting. Dean Payson S. Wild of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will moderate...