Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resolved that the Commerce Committee should investigate the shooting of a Niagara Falls citizen by a Coast Guardsman (see PROHIBITION). ¶ Passed Senator Brookhart's resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate chain stores. ¶ Approved the House bill authorizing reduction of the air mail rate from 10 cents per half-ounce to 5 cents. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the diversion of commerce from U. S. to Canadian ports. ¶ Passed bills to decorate the crew of the Atlantic-crossing NC4 and to strike a special medal for Fliers Chamberlin...
Died. Emil Bohnke, conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and his wife, Lilly Bohnke, 28, daughter of Franz von Mendelssohn, president of the German Congress of Trade and Industry; in an automobile accident, at Pasewalk, Germany...
...Business School has placed in positions more than 200 men of last year's graduating class, 143 of whom are now working in six branches of trade Sixty-one went into commercial and investment banking, 26 into manufacturing, 19 into chain and department stores, 15 into public utility corporations, 12 into teaching and ten into the Army or Navy Five of the members of last year's graduating class have remained at the school as instructions...
...shoulders of this country is regarded not only with bitterness but with fear that through further vicissitudes Europe may become in its poverty completely subservient to the United States. For the prevention of such as eventuality, two courses are open, commercial rehabilitation with the relinquishment of custom barriers and trade competition, and more remotely and disastrously, war. And it is not least in the realization that the second possibility is often a reality when the economic balance is destroyed, that the Pan-American Union is felt necessary...
...Brazil last week newspapers, politicians, and businessmen quarreled bitterly over the 50-year concession recently granted Henry Ford to cultivate rubber trees in the Amazon basin. By his contract he is permitted to engage in domestic and foreign trade without duty...