Word: trading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take the candy trade. A janitress at a food store studied the tastes of sweet-toothed small fry, concluded that what they liked most were toy-shaped confections. She went home, out of sugared batter molded a swan with raisin eyes, baked it, and promptly sold it to a schoolboy for 2 rubles. Encouraged, she turned more and more batter into dough, spawned a swarm of home bakeries among women in the Moscow suburb of Stolbovaya. Was such initiative encouraged? Moskovskaya Pravda urged the bureaucrats of the "Red Front" candy factory to undercut these "unsanitary private confectioners" by mass-producing...
...making of these pious toys became a specialized trade, and Naples was its center, with orders for cribs coming in from all over Europe. In the former royal Neapolitan palace at Caserta are preserved some 300 of the thousands of figurines that once composed Italy's most magnificent presepio, belonging to Bourbon King Charles III of Naples, who spent months arranging it each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector...
...only desirable but necessary. An estimated 9,000 patients annually need admission to Los Angeles' general hospitals for dentistry, though only 5,000 actually go in. With the city's population zooming, general-hospital beds are getting scarcer. Besides, most of its general hospitals dislike the cavity trade, and dentists are low men on the medical totem pole, with no admission priviliges. Patients who need hospitalization for major dentistry are listed as: the bedridden, the mentally retarded, many psychiatric patients, business and professional men who want to save time by having a lot of work done at once...
Hidden Costs. Upset by the fast attack, Schering's President Francis C. Brown hotly protested that Keef's chart -and the Keef himself-were all wrong. Prednisolone, said Brown, is a Schering improvement on Merck & Co.'s basic cortisone, is marketed by Schering under the trade name Meticortelone. Schering cross-licensed other companies to make it and bought a lot of it from Upjohn Co., at $1.19 per hundred tablets. But this price, argued Brown, did not take into account the costs for research, administration, taxes, selling and distribution. By Schering's figuring, said Brown...
Powerful Australian and New Zealand meat packers as well as the packing unions sought to stop Delfino because shipping of beef on the hoof imperiled Australia's frozen-meat export trade. Delfino cleared this hurdle after conferences with the government, paid Auckland dock wallopers triple and quadruple wages to load coal, and then got steaming. Twenty-eight days and one hurricane later, he landed in San Diego, minus 107 cattle and one crew member who had died on the way. There he was greeted by the A.S.P.C.A., U.S. Bureau of Customs, and the Public Health Service. The Chinese crewmen...