Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made his pictures look kind 'o dusty loike. That, sor, 's why I have the dust in some 'o my rooms, becus it makes 'em look loike rale nice paintings. Thin, too, sor, it makes 'em look more antique loike. Let me till yer, sor, a trick o' the trade that we all has. Yer see, if we lite things git covered up with dust, they disappears so gradual loike that they arn't noticed when they gits all buried. Thin, sor, we just exhumes 'em, and takes 'em, sor. It's quite an art, sor, this buryin' and exhumin...
...trade of Harvard University Students respectfully solicited...
...Indeed, the attendance at all of his four lectures has been such as to speak well for the interest which is taken by the students in this great economic question of the day, the tariff. We now look forward to the lectures which are to be given on Free Trade by an apostle of that school, only hoping that the lecturer may be as able, and as interesting as the gentleman who has so eloquently presented the other side of the question...
...Tariff stimulates over-production. but it is a very difficult thing to say that we have over-production. This is said to be the cause of hard times, but it is in fact hard times that often causes this overproduction. America has no monopoly of hard times. Free Trade countries suffer as much as we. The Tariff, therefore, cannot be charged with this common evil. If we remove this protection to our industries, we make America the dumping ground for Europe's surplus manufactures. Protection is antagonistic to commerce, we are told. Yet, our imports have increased five fold under...
...truth of a theory than by studying its workings in the past, it has given use to the Historical School of Economists. England, the champion of industrial economics, first demands our attention. She was for a long time, in the very early stages of development, a free trade country. She raised wool and sent it abroad to be manufactured. Not until the time of Edward III. when her industries began to be protected, did the era of prosperity open before her. For five hundred years she did not relinquish an industry which she found adapted to her country. Then came...