Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Socialism and Bolshevism are different things, and Anarchy is different form either, Senator Watson of Indiana identifies the three. Last week he introduced a resolution accusing several employees of the Federal Trade Commission of being Socialists, and called on the Government to investigate the Commission as a preliminary step in the eradication of Bolshevism...
...attempt to secure the co-operation of large business houses will also be made in the extension of the new courses. Export and import houses will be asked to submit specific trade problems for discussion in classes. If possible, men specializing in foreign trade will be given an opportunity to spend their summer vacations with such firms, in order to gain practical experience...
...expansion and development within its own borders," continued Professor Roorbach. "American industry has been occupied with supplying American demand. There has been little need to compete with foreign markets. Europe has sought our raw materials, and our manufactured goods for export have been limited. Hence our large export trade has grown without effort on our part. Now that manufactured goods are being produced in such large quantities, we must seek markets in competition with other manufacturing nations...
...When an English merchant sends his goods forty miles across the channel into France, that is considered foreign trade. But when a New England manufacturer sends his products three thousand miles across the continent to California, it is merely interstate commerce. It is easy to see, therefore, that the volume of American commerce has been great, although it has not been specifically designated as foreign trade...
...United States has now reached a stage in its development in which its industries are growing and finding new markets necessary. This is one of the most important causes for the intense interest now being shown in foreign trade throughout the United States, and the desire of American business to invade the foreign market...