Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Although war may for a time stimulate trade and manufactures, and thereby prosperity, in a neutral country sufficiently distant from the scene of conflict, it must ultimately be paid for, and in the end every part of the civilized world inevitably bears some share of the loss. This is the more true the larger the war. The waste and dislocation are certain to bring in the belligerent countries a depression of business that will go round the world. The self-interest of all nations, therefore, as well as the cause of humanity, ought to make every country desire peace among...
...Maxim states that at present he derives no support from the manufacture of arms or amunition. Nevertheless, he has made his fortune in them, and his life-work stands or falls on the justification of their purpose. He is, therefore, none the less eager to vindicate his trade...
...European Trade, Life Insurance, Public Utilities Operation, General Lumbering. Langdell North...
...University Bureau of Business Research, an important branch of the Graduate School of Business Administration has recently begun a research into the retail grocery trade of the United States, somewhat similar to the successful research into the shoe retailers trade, which is now practically completed. The object of the researches is to learn the facts in regard to carrying on these businesses as a basis for instruction in some of the Business School courses, but in addition to supplying this information, the researches have been very valuable in aiding the retailers themselves, and have brought out many facts which throw...
...shoe trade research, conducted under Professor S. O. Martin, an accounting system was arranged and sent out to the retailers, which was later adopted officially as the standard for the trade. Dr. M. T. Copeland, who is conducting the grocery research has consequently got out a grocery accounting system which is being taken up by the retailers even more enthusiastically than the shoe system. It is hoped that it will be adopted as the trade standard in the near future, as over 2,100 copies have been sent out and the Bureau now has 275 co-operators who send...