Word: trade
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...Department is desirous of exerting its utmost efforts to further commerce. As our foreign commerce increases in volume we come more and more in competition with our rivals in the marts of the world. We have trade agents in foreign countries studying conditions and markets in the principal countries of the world which draw, or can draw, upon the products of our mills and factories. Their reports are disseminated throughout the country, as well as the reports of our consuls bearing upon commerce...
...converge to a common end, good results cannot be secured from public schools. Moreover, since the greater proportion of the boys who leave school on completing the elementary grades, find themselves inadequately fitted for earning wages, the training in the public schools should be supplemented by night schools and trade schools, where the education will be adapted to the real needs of pupils...
...commercial layer composed of men employed in buying and distributing; and last, a class in agricultural and forestry employ. Transition from one of these layers to the others should be kept easy. Opposed to this transition are two forces: one, the operative level in industry; and the other, the trade union--the most undemocratic thing we have ever developed in the United States
Literary sympathy, though not of course complete, is abundantly instanced by the many recent publications in both countries, and by international lectures, such as those by Professor Wendell and Professor Coolidge. The friendliness of trade relations, though somewhat hampered by protectionist legislation, has been greatly assured by the recent signing of a commercial treaty...
President Eliot will give an address this evening in Quincy under the auspices of the local Board of Trade on "Municipal Government by Commission...