Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postal cards were evidently sent out in an effort to discredit a statement in an editorial appearing in Wednesday morning's CRIMSON. On the return postal card were printed a statement by a New York sports writer to the effect that Harvard would willingly trade President Lowell, President Eliot and an assortment of department heads for a good running backfield, and a quotation from the CRIMSON's editorial refuting the charge. The recipient of each postal card was asked to check his opinion on each quotation "in the interest of statistics," and return the card...
...whole, 1925 has so far justified those prophets of business who last January forecast widespread yet non-sensational prosperity. As in practically all periods of prosperity, however, industries are sharing the general benefits quite unevenly. The sugar trade, for example, is depressed (see below) while Florida realty soars...
...very general feeling of prosperity now experienced by U. S. business, the sugar trade has not shared. Raw sugar has recently dropped to 2? a pound-the lowest price since 1922. Prophecies of a further decline in raw sugar to l¾? a pound are common, since a huge increase in the supply is overhanging the markets...
...desires of conservative business men (see Page 6, TAXATION). Not only will the income tax rates be lowered, thus freeing much money each year for investment in business instead of Government projects, but the anticipated repeal of many excise nuisance taxes should also prove a considerable boon to trade...
Worst of all, to the sugar trade at least, is the prospect for still further production increases in 1925-26. The present prices, however, are already below cost of production for most Cuban sugar-mills. There is little prospect of an increase in consumption sufficient to absorb the impending surplus...