Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above mentioned issue on page 13 in an article entitled "Bombs," you mention a supposed bombardment of a market of several rebel villages in the Riff. Permit me to inform you that your correspondent was . . . misinformed. There are none and have been no rebellious tribes in the Riff since the spring of 1927 when . . . the last of the partisans of Aid el Krim [were] subdued and brought under French control. . . . Since then the Riff has been absolutely peaceful, on the French side of the divide at least...
...holds little value. Another interests itself with the profits obtainable through the utilization of the water power project, but omits the consideration of public interest which is incorporated in the Norris plan passed by the Senate some time ago. In it Senator Norris proposed not only that the government market the power of Muscle Shoals, but that it also devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. The dual project of the Norris plan is sound, but it has more than this to recommend it. It will provide a test of the comparative merits of public and private operation...
...have ten farms. Each raises pigs. Their common market is the village around which they all live. The pig prices they will get from the villagers depend on three things...
...received numerous valuable presents from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven-seater three-motored airplane. Generally speaking the Monarch's circumspection in letting contracts or concessions may be considered as due to the fact that the securities market is not yet ripe for any investment in Afghanistan. As the country becomes gradually civilized-a process which King Amanullah is furthering by every means in his power-Afghanistan will indeed open up as a land of richest mineral promise and virgin soil...
...Edouard Herriot, has remained obstinate. Finally last week Cinema Censor Hays let his anger mount and began to threaten. He announced that he had booked passage for the U. S., and that upon the day he sailed the U. S. film industry would suspend all business in the French market. The potency of this threat lay in the fact that France does not yet produce sufficient cinema dramas to supply even one-third of her own demand. Therefore if the U. S. film industry boycotted France some 8,000 French cinema theatre employes would shortly be thrown out of work...