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Word: trading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Mr. Barnes had testified, Chairman Legge publicly corrected him: "The Board did not alter its policies as a result of the hearing given the grain trade nor has the board agreed to submit its policies to the grain trade before action. . . . I don't think Mr. Barnes intended to convey this impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Barnes v. Legge | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico is Laredo," Tex. Last week the portal was slammed shut by the removal of the Mexican consulate. Reason: Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had attempted to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime President of Mexico, on a 1922 murder conspiracy charge. Laredo shopkeepers, hard hit by the loss of Mexican trade, appealed to Governor Dan Moody who, in turn, appealed to Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Closed Portal | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...revenge: the Mexican consulate and border station at Laredo were closed, with a prospective loss in trade to Laredo citizens of $30,000 for every day the barrier remained closed (see p. 14). It was announced that they would remain closed "until respect and comfort are guaranteed Mexican officials passing through Laredo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...receivers were appointed as the result of a petition by Bethlehem Steel Corp., said to be a $400,000 creditor. In this receivership there was not evident the aftermath of the market's break, as had been true in the Fox trusteeship (TIME, Dec. 16), nor of poor trade conditions as in the American Piano receivership (see p. 30). There was little reason to believe that Combustion's total assets, which exceeded $60,000,000 at the end of 1928, have depreciated. Causes of the company's troubles are supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Combustion: 103 to 4. | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...once amused his father by advising him to cut out the blessing before meals, instead to bless the pantry cupboard once for all and thus save valuable time. Though he was destined for the ministry, after two years' schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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