Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government's policy is to prevent a rise in the costs to the consumers for the simple and obvious reason that it affects the price of the commodity on the international market. It holds that it is Germany's prime duty to increase her foreign markets in order that she can build up credits abroad for transfer on account of reparations under the Dawes plan. To which the workers answer that such a policy puts the whole reparations burden on their shoulders...
...Rosso when she dropped anchor at quarantine in New York Harbor last week* and permitted reporters to tease noncommittal smiles from him. "Mr. Woods," they chirruped, "who was the person who provided $2,500,000 for the American School for Classical Studies at Athens to excavate the ancient public market place of Athens...
Stocks. The stock market last week registered one of the most exciting periods in its history. Prices of time-tried shares, long leaders in what has become known as the Coolidge market, were slashed unmercifully by the short interests, marking a decline on the exchange that reflected the country-wide depression now being experienced in almost every avenue of trade. U. S. Steel common, General Motors, General Electric and N. Y. Central shares, known as financial bellwethers and representative of industrial, railway and utility activity, were unable to offer their usual resistance to the present economic disquiet and concluded...
Rubber, like other commodities, enjoys an elastic market. But potent manufacturers who buy raw rubber (like Harvey Samuel Firestone and Henry Ford) would rather raise it than stretch for it. In 1926, Mr. Firestone bought 1,000,000 acres in Liberian jungleland from which, in nine years, he will get his own rubber for his own tires. Now Mr. Firestone's close friend, Henry Ford, has adopted a similar policy...
...blades will slash down their one-time haunts to make way for future windshield wipers, floor mats, balloon tires. If Mr. Ford's plantation progresses in Brazil as Mr. Firestone's is progressing in Liberia, it should in ten years become a factor in the international rubber market...