Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Beginning with the revival after the crisis, Dr. Mitchell traced the development half way through the cycle, or to the point where liquidation sets in after the banks have refused to extend loans any further. The re-establishment of business activity comes from an increased volume of trade, which tends to boost prices. Optimism sets in prospect of greater profits tends to confidence and increased investment, and a short period of five or six years of prosperity is well...
...manual labor which is considered degrading, but the women are the toilers. Standing in a community is measured by the number of wives which a man has. An ordinary person has about five, while the more influential members possess about thirty. Mr. Cele is well fitted to conduct a trade school to teach the Africans, having taken courses in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, upholstery, shoemaking, painting and agriculture at Hampton Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only fitted to train the minds...
...Seminary of Economics. "The Organization of the Grain Trade on the Pacific Coast," by Mr. Wilfred Eldred, in Upper Dane...
...University Register submits the following list of trade advertisements which are to be disposed of at from 10 to 15 per cent. discount. Students wishing to avail themselves of these may obtain credit-slips from either D. P. Whitney '15 or C. C. Loomis '15, at 22 Plympton street. Last year, the Register went deeply into debt, and if students who trade with the merchants enumerated below will make use of the advertisements, it will do much to lighten the Register's financial obligations. Henry J. Bean, tailor, on suit or overcoat, $25.00 Byrd Studio, Photographs, 14.50 A. A. Carter...
...suggest that similar lists be sent out, but that they go this time, directly or indirectly, into more hands and that they state clearly the means and conditions for making use of the "trade." If the undergraduates will then use it as often as possible, the debts of the Register will be cleared in two seasons at the most...