Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beyer of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in the first lecture of the series, will speak on "Experiences with cooperation between labor and management in the Railway Industry...
...Small business, the business of ordinary merchants and of investors with limited capital, has been adverse rather than prosperous, during recent years. This has reacted unfavorably on the small trader and upon labor, so that more failures have occurred during the present Administration than in any comparable period of history...
Coincident with the return to London of James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Party, a manifesto was issued, last week, declaring that the Party will champion "reform of the Bank of England" as a leading issue in the 1929 election. The "reform" envisions Labor representation on the Bank of England's omnipotent Governing Board...
...chance the Board was in session, last week, and a new shareholder, Mr. Hargreaves, had the temerity to propose, not that "Labor" should be represented, but merely that the heads of Britain's greatest commercial banks, the "Big Five,"* should sit on the Bank of England's Board...
...Java and other oriental Dutch cinchona tree plantations. The British have small plantations in India. The northern Andes, particularly in Ecuador, where the trees are native, now produce little of the bark. The Indians, who must chop their paths through jungles to reach the isolated cinchona groves, find the labor too hard for profit. Consequently the Dutch have been able to regulate the world cinchona bark and quinine trade very much as they pleased...