Word: intra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More interesting than Canada's banking problems to many a U.S. businessman is her recovery from Depression. With no New Deal to titillate prices, only intra-Empire tariff preferences to promote business, Canada since last February has staged an economic comeback almost equal to that of the U. S. Her bank clearings are 27% ahead of last year, her car-loadings up 7%, her wholesale price index stands at 70.5 as compared to 66.6 a year ago and 63.6 in February. Drought has put her wheat up to 80? (from a low of 50?). Her busy gold mines...
...great majority of thinking men who viewed with intense disapproval the strangulation of foreign trade by a competitive tariff race, this doctrine of "intra-nationalism" will come as something of a shock. Before condemning it out of hand, they should recognize that the laisser faire economy in which the free traders proved their case is rapidly ceasing to exists. This country has embarked on a far-reaching program of national economic planning. It may be that the domestic adjustments of this program would be upset if our commodity and capital markets were open without restriction to foreign influences...
Prices & Consumers. Concerning itself chiefly with the paramount issues of wages and re-employment, the I. R. A. had failed to lay down specifications on intra-industry price-fixing, a vital factor to competing producers as well as to consumers. To clear up that Pineapple No. 2 General Johnson announced: "In these codes it will be proper for an industry to say it will not sell below cost of production. But if they use the code to fix extortionate prices. I should have to step in. . . ." Administrator Johnson hoped that industries would keep prices in the background "for at least...
...cast a fencelike shadow upon the screen. When Dr. Lark-Horovitz adds energy to the copper plate by heating it, electrons jump from one energy level to another in the copper atoms, and the "pickets" in the x-ray picture shift a perceptible distance. Dr. Lark-Horovitz calculates the intra-atomic movements at one 200,000,000th part of an inch...
...assure close cooperation between the House teams and the Harvard Athletic Association in such matters as equipment, playing area and coaches, and in accordance with the suggestion of the Student Council, I appointed the Director of Intra-mural Athletics, Adolph W. Samborski '25, to be Secretary of the House Athletic Committee. In the administration of House athletics Mr. Samborski has no instructions from us, other than to offer his experience to help the House Committee. On the other hand, he does not knowingly allow a House to default in athletics because of the improper selection of an unqualified representative...