Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal. Sanctions contemplated by the Covenant of the League are of four kinds: 1) moral and diplomatic measures, such as recalling all diplomats accredited to the wrong-doing State; 2) financial and economic measures, such as refusing further credit; 3) international boycott, to deprive the wrongdoer of all trade; and 4) force, or the declaration of war on the wrongdoer by League States...
...that a generation of Cunard publicity for the now scrapped Mauretania should not be wasted, British Board of Trade officials were besought last week for permission to re-name the coastal paddlewheel steamer Queen the Mauretania. The paddlewheeler's owners are Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Ltd., large stockholder in Cunard White Star. Shrewd, the Royal Mail hopes by calling the boat Mauretania to have the name available for a sister to the Queen Mary should one ever be built...
...gets no lasting benefit from these gold receipts, for the capital may be withdrawn as rapidly as it was sent," said National City Bank in its monthly trade & finance review. "In fact, [the gold] is a menace since . . . additions to the gold stock only increase the temptation and the pressure to put it to inflationary uses...
...fighting a case in the Supreme Court of Illinois and an injunction against the Waitresses' Union while his poems were meeting their first extraordinary response. Born in Garnett, Kans., in 1869, he had spent most of his life in Illinois, where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less as an art to be practiced than as a message to be preached, placing it on an eminence almost beyond human reach. When William Marion Reedy, after reading the first...
...done Australia will probably have relatively little grain for export, and most of that will go to the Far East. Despite rosy reports on its crop, Russian exports are expected to be light (see p. 19). But the most sudden and surprising upset in the world's wheat trade occurred in Argentina, where drought and locusts cut the prospective harvest nearly 50%. In good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing no end of embarrassment to Buenos Aires exporting firms which sold for future delivery more grain than the country can spare. Argentina still...