Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third of a million dollars in one's bank account; something sturdy and respectable to point to, but it does seem a little useless for an organization which has practically nothing in the way of current liabilities. Nor is there any grave danger of a panic in the football market in anticipation of which reserves should be conservatively hoarded...
...gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export market; 7) necessitate further tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations; 9) put U. S. livestock men at a disadvantage by raising U. S. feed prices; 10) increase U. S. taxes. President Hoover summed up: ". . . [its] theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the farmer; it would create profiteering; it contains elements which would bring...
...mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise the world sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential, would pay $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present rate of $1.76. Such an increase would add $90,000,000 to the annual U. S. sugar bill. Even with this protection...
...this Island commodity, he said, would be a "betrayal of trust by the U. S. toward a dependent people." He argued that Philippine sugar, less than one-fifth of U. S. consumption, does not affect the domestic market, that the attempt to limit Philippine sugar came not from the U. S. beet-sugar industry but "directly from those interests which have invested in Cuban sugar." He denied that domestic sugar interests could increase their production if importation from the Philippines were restricted...
...considerable extent, many of the men who are without work today would find occupations. England and France are keeping their commercial eyes on Russia, too, and at the first sign of a stable working arrangement with that country, all Europe would look to the Soviet Union as a market for goods that are not being sold fast enough in other places...