Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete suspension of German purchases from Brazil and the whole Nazi press joined in flaying the U. S., Britain and France for trying to strangle Germany by "economic encirclement." According to this Nazi version, "dollar diplomacy" is now fighting the Reich in Latin America, while Germany's "natural trade with eastern Europe" is being killed by Britain and France "with golden bullets...
...Proposed fair trade practice rules for the silk industry. As it has already done with the rayon industry, FTC at the request of certain members of the silk business drew up a proposed set of rules which will not go into effect until after a public hearing August 2. Points which upset the industry last week were that the label on silk state the exact proportion of metallic weighting and finishing materials in the goods, if any, and that the word "silk" may not be used in a firm's name unless a "substantial part" of its business...
...Depression II has turned the corner, nothing is of more importance to business than the Government's drive to reshape the antitrust laws. Last week, as the Monopoly Investigation sharpened its pencils and Big Business received a thumping endorsement from the Brookings Institution (see col. 3), the Federal Trade Commission polished off a two-year investigation of the farm-equipment industry by proposing a major change in the 24-year-old Clayton Anti-Trust Act. This product of the first trust-busting era made it illegal for one company to purchase the capital stock of another when the result...
...case had not been heard, that its high profits in 1937 resulted from the "unusual banked-up volume of sales to customers who had deferred purchases during the Depression," that FTC's analysis of price changes over the years "ignores" many factors, that "if decline in percentage of trade and extraordinary growth in competitors . . . indicates no competition and dominance by the company which has lost the trade, this can only be because of a unique conception of what constitutes competition and dominance. The FTC's conception is not, we believe, in accord with common understanding...
Sign King Leigh's real success dates from the day he got exclusive U. S. rights for 17 years on a moving picture-type of outdoor sign invented by Kurt Rosen berg of Austria-the electric animated cartoon. Although he has now eight ani mated "spectaculars" (as the trade calls them), on Broadway, his Old Gold display is by far the most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs...