Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Empire Trade. Premier Stanley Baldwin made a declaration of his economic policy to the House. The main points were...
...only one year, 1895), the American Federation of Labor was without Samuel Gompers as its President. He had been a worker and leader of workers from youth. Born in 1850, the eldest son of Dutch Jews, he came to the U. S. when only 15, already a cigarmaker by trade. A year later, he helped to organize the Cigarmakers' International Union and became its first Secretary. He took part in the formation of both the New York State Federation and the American Federation of Labor...
...Wales would visit Argentina in 1925, after having visited South Africa. Even this was only half a surprise for it was known beforehand that the Prince was sometime to visit South America. British businessmen exulted over the visit which, said they, would surely act as a stimulus to trade. Mention of raising the British Legation at Buenos Aires to the rank of an Embassy was also made...
...however, the wheel has turned again. U. S. capital is becoming interested in the Sonneberg district of Germany with the view to rehabilitating its famous toy industries. The move will not affect this Christmas buying; but, by another Christmas, as Government trade experts point out, our toy markets may be flooded with cheaper toys from abroad...
With the Christmas shopping season at hand, other business phenomena for the time being are of secondary interest and importance. Indications are for a very good retail trade, although in some quarters it is apparent that merchants have not stocked their shelves heavily. The Manhattan stock market, last week, encountered its first important reaction, so long expected. The slump in prices proved only temporary, however, particularly in the good rails, and failed to indicate any real halt to the rising market...