Word: trading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Democratic Rule, 1913-1921. Economic life quickened; no corruption; privilege uprooted; great leadership in a great war; reduction of tariff taxes; creation of Federal Trade Commission, Farm Loan system, Secretariat of Labor; Federal Reserve system; enactment of more effective, constructive, remedial legislation than the Republicans had done in a generation...
...Chicago Board of Trade has had its troubles ever since the War. As a result of the speculative crash in the grain markets in 1920, the "farm bloc" imposed many new restrictions upon the organized grain market, and farm organizations have resolved to assume control of the free and open grain market or else deliberately put it out of business...
...some time prior to 1762-the date of the first ledger entry on the Company's books-by one James Benedict, who started a shoe factory at New Canaan. Soon the "cordwainers" of New Canaan became nationally known for their fine products, and sold largely to the southern trade- even to New Orleans. In the Civil War the factory, then a century old, made shoes for the Union Army. Up to this time, shoes were all handmade, and the shoemaking machinery of today did not exist. The factory cut the parts, which were stitched together by hand...
...American department store has developed trade and commerce as fully as the old clipper ships ever did. It was the American department store that elevated the buying and selling of merchandise to the dignity of a profession and established standards as high as any other honorable enterprise...
...This Is Politics. This comedy of a small city campaign for Mayor has obviously been offered to catch the Democratic National Convention trade. It should succeed fairly well in its purpose, unless the delegates after each performance at Madison Square Garden are too abysmally satiated with modern statesmanship to see it exposed on the stage...