Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotels, caterers, dance orchestras, and social secretaries who conduct New York's $3,000,000-a-year debutante trade knew that debuts were not what they used to be. Parents no longer built special ballrooms on their country estates, or spent $10,000 for decorations, or hired 50-piece orchestras, or gutted Broadway's flossiest nightclubs for entertainment. Nowadays, a debutante might be charged as little as $1,000 for a dinner, $6,000 for a supper dance...
...hungry Manhattan, the 10% rule of thumb was as dead as the nickel fare. Three trade associations threw some light on the going rates: 15% on restaurant checks; 20% to 25% on cab fares; 25? for bellhops (two bags). A shine was 15?-plus...
More & more physicists are coming to know the Institute as the home of an authentic contemporary hero of their trade: Dr. J. (for nothing) Robert Oppenheimer, who is president of the American Physical Society, chairman of the technical advisers to the Atomic Energy Commission, and one of the world's top theoretical physicists. Laymen know him as the man who bossed the production of the atom bomb. Last week, at 44, Oppenheimer was beginning his second year as director of the Institute for Advanced Study...
...objective look at the facts does not lead us to the view that "the foreign policy issue is Herter's strongest talking point," as Mr. Hooper holds. Herter voted for the discriminatory provisions of the D.P. bill, for arming Greek and Turkish fascists, against extending power to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements for three years, and for his own bill attempting to put the European economy completely in the hands of private U.S. monopolies...
Mason's FTC colleagues take a dim view of his contention that FTC, instead of enforcing the antitrust laws, should "educate" business by telling trade associations how they should police their own houses. Mason argues tirelessly that it is "unfair" to prosecute one company while others are permitted to get away with the same thing. Grumbled one colleague: "I expect him to set that to music...