Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paso (pop. 103.000), biggest border town, is crowded with Mexicans, tourists, consumptives. Small Laredo has begun to rival it for Mexican trade, is counting on a boom as U. S. starting point of the new Pan-American Highway. Brownsville, once headquarters for Confederate blockade runners, is now a market town for the Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort...
Mayors of Arab villages were summoned to the High Commissioner's office, asked to call off the general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have...
WORLD MUST TRADE OR FIGHT, HULL SAYS...
...Deal's policy of lowering tariffs by reciprocal trade treaties. In Washington, President Roosevelt had upped the tariff on Japanese cotton cloth by a thumping 42%. Certain results of this move will be to put more money in the pockets of U. S. textile millers, make U. S. consumers pay more for nightgowns, children's underwear, men's handkerchiefs. A possible result may be the loss to U. S. cotton-growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes...
Assembled in Cleveland last week for a two-day annual convention was that exclusive little trade organization, the Associated Stock Exchanges. It has only 22 members, though the full roster of U. S. stockmarkets including the Honolulu Stock Exchange and the Manila Stock Exchange numbers 30.* Out of that total 21 are registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission as "national securities exchanges." The rest, largely local in character, enjoy temporary exemption pending SEC investigation. Even among registered markets only two are really national institutions-the New York Stock Exchange, which accounts for about 86% of the total dollar volume...