Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects of independence for the Philippines. They argued about Philippine sugar, vegetable oils and tobacco. Not free Filipinos but free trade was chief topic of debate...
...stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which the Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic Machines Corp.; Drapery Trust; Retail Trade Corp.; Photomaton Parent Corp. and Far Eastern Photomaton Corp.-both companies operating coin-in-the-slot camera booths, unconnected financially with the U. S. exploiters of the same Photomaton machine...
...remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices high. For over two decades they have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which the world has found hard to beat. By systematic hoarding of the Sāo Paulo crop in good years and judicious release of these hoardings in bad they have made...
Inevitably Sāo Paulo's bonanza prosperity caused other Brazilian states to go in heavily for coffee planting, spurred by the lure of high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until...
...pertinent to the present discussion) has collected from her faithful sons an enormous endowment fund. Who were its most conspicuous donors? Were they prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...