Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall goods was at hand. Labor predicted a "victory...
...ability of its troops to support themselves without looting-a common practice of other Chinese armies but punished by Marshal Feng with Death. Instead of an army of bandits, why not an army of artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms, another carpenters, another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member...
...everyone knows, U. S. steel makers may not combine to control the domestic market. They may combine, however, under the provisions of the Export Trade act (Webb-Pomerene law), to undersell foreign mills in foreign markets. Last week, the two principal producers, U. S. Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel Corp., controlling over 75% of the American export trade, proposed through their export subsidiaries* the formation of an association to market all U. S. iron and steel products abroad...
...occur at an awkward time, and his responsibility onerous, he must have been reassured by the valedictory of the retiring N. E. L. A. president, Howard T. Sands of Manhattan: "Human frailty exists in our industry as in all others. In an investigation like this [by the Federal Trade Commission], involving every act of thousands of companies, hundreds of thousands of separate transactions ... for the last quarter of a century, it would be miraculous if there should not be found some instances of bad judgment, of the influence of greed, even perhaps of actual wrongdoing. Such instances...
Groceries. To its 3,972 units, the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. last week added the 193 Foltz Grocery and Baking stores, the family trade of many a Kentucky and Ohio housewife, and a large Foltz warehouse and bakery. The public was not invited. Money for the purchase came out of Kroger's treasury...