Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anti-Chain Store, to protect independent merchants by forbidding fake discounts and rebates to chain purchasers, empowering the Federal Trade Commission to fix maximum discounts on quantity purchases (TIME, March...
...great extent the new Lifeline of Empire is already tingling with British trade. Last week London newsreaders were assured that an amazingly large volume of British tonnage which used to go via Suez is now rounding Africa, with the further good news that so much is saved by not paying canal tolls that the cost is "about the same." Famed Hector Charles Bywater, usually considered the journalistic mouthpiece of the British Admiralty, came out with the great discovery, which would have been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only...
...Dominion Trade & Industry Commission Act the Court gave piecemeal approval. Unanimously it held invalid the Commission's right to exempt from prosecution combines in restraint of trade, the issuance of a Canadian trademark to signify a product's compliance with Commission standards. The section of the Commission's functions which the Court held valid was again concerned with the prevention of unfair trade practices...
Signing of the measure last week passed unnoticed by the commodity markets affected. Indeed, cotton went above 12? per Ib. for the first time since last January; wheat closed the week with a 6? gain at 94? per bu. President Robert P. Boylan of the Chicago Board of Trade diplomatically announced: "Directors of the Board of Trade have no reason to anticipate other than a fair and reasonable administration...
...dressed in their native costume and performing on guitars, mandolins, bandurrias. On their heels followed a band of Italians who also called themselves "The Spanish Students." So intense was their rivalry that, when the two troupes met in Denver, they battled it out with fists. To the musical instrument trade of the U. S. this was a godsend. The mandolin was something new to most people, and in the 1890's, heyday of parlor music, that wiry-sounding fretted instrument became the rage...