Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moreover trade and ugly commercialism so tainted the significance of the number twelve that the references to it in history and literature are, literally, numbered...
Today healthy recovery conditions are signalized by three facts: 1) Japan's unfavorable foreign trade balance has been sharply reduced by wise retrenchment; 2) Money has grown sufficiently plentiful in Tokyo so that large issues of securities are again being placed there, notably the recent Osaka Municipal Loan; 3) Tourist spending in Japan is on the boom; 4) Japanese interests in Manchuria are prospering under the firm if iniquitous rule of Marshal Chang...
...have always opposed the hotheads who claim that the interests of Japan and America are conflicting. The loss of our silk trade with America alone would paralyze Japan. I maintain that the two great Pacific nations must be mutually friendly. The same applies to the Soviet Union, which is now retaking its place as a world power...
...Calcutta there go each year to New York and Boston 68 great vessels bearing cargoes of jute fibre and burlap cloths, raw materials for carpets, rugs, bagging, sacking, scrims, tarpaulins. Homely though the cargoes be, they bring a nabob's revenues to the ship owners. To gain Indian trade, ship captains two centuries ago piratically cut each other's throats. Last week operators seeking the same trade punctiliously cut their own rates...
Their ships have carried practically no jute. The Isthmian Line, potent ship subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp., have carried four cargoes a year, the Cunard-Brocklebank Line two each month, and the Ellerman- Bucknell Line (oldest in the trade) the rest. They had old, excellent contacts with the chief U. S. importers of jute-the Bemis Bag Co., Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Chase Bag Co., American Manufacturing...