Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalling to the public the attitude of Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. (my father) upon banking law. He was opposed to the system which has fostered the present great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population. According to the figures of the Federal Trade Commission, 1% of the people own 59% of the wealth, 13% own 90% and 87% own 10%. Half the national income returns to capital...
...business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish evidences of approaching motherhood supplied additional market with which the Bryant stores are now most prominently associated. They have, indeed, made a further extension and now do a brisk trade in layettes...
...kind of side line to keep themselves in business until their automobile was perfected. While they were arguing, others were acting. Ford had a car at $850. There was a Cadillac at $750 and an Oldsmobile at $650. But the Buick was a good car. It won competitive tests. Trade papers praised it. At last orders began to come in. Sales were rising; profits were in sight. But production costs increased also, made necessary another reorganization, another influx of capital...
...Francisco financial circles were last week agitated over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading...
...heard a shrill, tinkling sound as a large advertising glass house was struck by a swiftly moving missile. The glass house was the elaborate structure of testimonial advertising currently so conspicuous. The missile was an attack on testimonial advertising launched by Frederick C. Kendall, editor of Advertising & Selling, fortnightly trade-paper. The damage, considerable, was difficult to estimate...