Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made concessions to French goods impossible. Consequently France declined to give U. S. goods the benefit of her minimum tariffs. The French reduced their quotas on U. S. goods when Depression hit harder. U. S. dollar devaluation made matters worse. Last year France was the fourth largest U. S. market, whereas the U. S. was only the twelfth largest market for France. But even in 1910 U. S. exports to France were higher than in 1935, and as far back as 1901 France exported more goods to the U. S. than it did in 1935. What both governments earnestly hoped...
Oats, unlike wheat or corn, go to market firmly encased in hulls. The hull is used to make furfural, a chemical resembling formaldehyde. Furfural may also be produced from such things as corncobs, sunflower seeds and old leaves, but oat hulls are available in large quantities at convenient places and the furfural yield is high. Three big uses for furfural are in plastics, in refining lubricating oils, in purification of wood rosin...
...Government. Asphalt-with-cotton needs less maintenance than ordinary bituminous road surfacing, the fabric preventing cracking, water seepage, minimizing heaving when frost comes out of the ground. Eight to ten bales of cotton are required for each mile of road. If all bituminous resurfacing were done with cotton, a market for some 400,000 bales would be provided annually. Latest development in cotton is an experiment in converting the entire plant-boll, pod, leaves and stem-into cellulose...
...brothers Berkey, Julius and William, one of whom had taken an afternoon off from logging in the Grand River to hew himself a table. Twenty years later the company was incorporated with $500,000 capital, and the great period of Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew...
...years, President Gay of the New York Market and other financial leaders have been hammering away at the surtaxes as a "potent secondary cause of stock market inflation." In a period when all tax methodology is being reexamined, it would seem imperative in the interests of stability, to repeat the capital gains taxes, and thus remove one more potential factor in a fatal inflationary move...