Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry when prices went up, and worry also when they went down. There was certainly some caution in the air. Florida had never had so many tourists, but along Miami Beach, where workmen had labored overtime under nightlong floodlights to build 19 new hotels for the booming luxury trade, that trade was no longer booming. In Seattle a waitress complained: "Things are starting to tighten up all right; you get twice as many 10? tips as you did six months ago. No more two bits and four bits...
...flash, the Hon. William Alexander Bustamante-Minister of Communications, pistol-toting boss of "Bustamante's Industrial Trade Unions," and leader of the majority Labor Party-was on his feet, his white mane bristling. "I appeal to Mr. Speaker," he roared, "for the withdrawal of the word twist. I refuse to allow anyone to make an imputation against my irreproachable character...
...earned it with his spectacular triple performance-as the American League's best shortstop, its best hitter (.355) after Boston's Ted Williams, and manager of the league and world's champions. President Veeck threw in a handsome admission: "Sure, I tried to trade the guy off [in 1947]. But the fans wouldn't stand for it . . . So Boudreau made up his mind then to prove I was a jerk. That's just what...
Even retail trade, which had been queasy six weeks ago, looked healthier again. In 1949's first two full weeks, department-store sales in big cities were generally from i to 30% better than the 1948 period. And since many prices had been slashed to move sluggish stocks, these figures did not reflect a still bigger increase in unit volume...
Hollywood, which is notoriously touchy about harsh words from outsiders, listened last week to a plain-spoken spat between two of its own. Producer Sam Goldwyn began it by deciding to toss in his lot with the independent film producers (S.I.M.P.P.). He announced that he was quitting the two trade associations of the major studios (M.P.A.A. and A.M.P.P.), because "there must be a return to real free enterprise in our industry." Dapper Eric Johnston, who heads them both, took a deep breath and fired...