Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aged McNary-Haugen bill. Senator McNary last fortnight explained, and last week the Committee on Agriculture reported favorably, a draft modified to meet nine of President Coolidge's last objections. The new bill calls for a $250,000,000 revolving fund to be loaned by the Government to marketing associations to aid in selling surplus crops in an "orderly" way. Also, it would establish a Federal Farm Board to administer this fund and it removes all restrictions from the President in naming this Board's members. Also, it makes the relief provisions applicable to all farm produce instead...
...more I thought of it, the less I liked its appearance," Mr. Patten testified. Why should Treasurer Upham dispose of bonds belonging to the G. O. P. so privately when there was a quick public market for them any day? Mr. Patten worried about it in bed that night. Next day he rid himself of these queer bonds by giving them as his subscription to the Evanston Hospital...
...repealing or modifying the Stevenson Act (TIME, March 5). Already the price of rubber has fallen in anticipation that the Commission will report against further curtailment; and it seemed last week that the British Empire has been definitely forced out of its monopolistic position in the world rubber market...
...Muscle, Shoals problem gas once more come before the Senate. The bill which presents it proposes that the government market the power which can be easily developed and devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. Considering that the plant cost the United States $160,000,000 and that it cannot be sold at a profit this seems a sensible project...
...survey also brought out that small microscopes could be sold in department stores for the educational development of school children, and so this market is being covered extensively and now the manufacturer's plant is working overtime...