Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution by Senator La Follette, Republican of Wisconsin, call-ing for an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into the profits of bakers and flour millers in relation to the high price of bread and the low price of wheat...
Unfortunately in the real battle which was going on, this oratory counted little more than persuasion counts in a sharp-witted horse-trade...
...mean that Russia would have nothing to do with countries denying recognition. In answer to queries about the U. S. and France, the Deputy Foreign Minister added: "Of course, this doesn't mean that we decline to follow the British precedent of de facto recognition, with a trade agreement, in the case of such countries as hitherto have abstained from any sort of relations with Russia what-soever...
...scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds. Every fool aspired to be a knave. . . . Innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere, soon receiving the name of bubbles", such as a project to carry on a whale fishing trade, by name the Grand Fishery of Great Britain; one for a perpetual motion machine, capital one million; and finally, "one for undertaking a great advantage, but nobody to know what...
...Harvard Economic Studies, on "Canada's Balance of International Indebtedness 1900-1913," by Jacob Viner G. '15, is the next book on the list. It is a study of Canada's experiences under peculiar conditions, which served as a test of the classical theory of the mechanism of international trade...