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Word: trading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Several schools get around the fair trade requirements and provide a good saving for their students on books used in school courses," Wyant said last night. "I want to find how they get around the various problems involved, and what discounts they got from publishers." He sent the questionnaires through the College's National Student Association chapter to various other NSA member schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Seeks Way to Slash Cost of Books | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Schenley Laboratories' trade name for 4-acetyl-aminobenzaldehyde-thiosemicarbazone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Booty | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Died. Walter Runciman, Viscount of Doxford, 78, onetime Liberal M.P.,* President of the Board of Trade (1914-16, 1931-37); after long illness; in Chathill, England. In 1931 Runciman drafted, under Tory pressure, the emergency tariff that ended Britain's 80-year-old free trade policy; in 1938 he was unofficial mediator in the Czech-Sudeten pre-World War II crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Test Case. In Wetaskiwin, Alta., the board of trade explained why the city was short' on publicity during fire-prevention week: all the literature had been destroyed in a warehouse fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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