Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceeded our 1920 volume in gallons, and this difference in dollars was, therefore, accounted for by the fact that we have had approximately a 25% less price in 1925 than in 1920, which we think is a very important fact in the minds of the public and the trade generally...
...culture exotic and attractive. The old quarter still persists between Canal Street and the river-its narrow streets, its weather-beaten, balconied homes and stores. But the oldtimers, the French and Spanish, have been-crowded out of late. Other Latins have replaced them, the Italians who have gone into trade and commission marketing...
...problem which the Senate investigation has already revealed, is a serious one, for similar charges, at least partially substantiated by fact, have been directed against the Interstate Commerce and Federal Trade Commissions. Whether tariffs should be high or low, whether certain types of combinations are in restraint of trade or not, are debatable points, to be settled only by investigation and adjudication of the commissions. But it is certainly beyond question that those enormously intricate problems relating to interstate and foreign trade which are now within the sphere of governmental regulation or supervision, and they are many, should be handled...
...Tariff Commission after long representing the pottery interests in tariff squabbles or of E. G. Broussard, a strong high tariff man with no more technical knowledge of his subject than the average politician. And similar appointments have been made recently to the Interstate Commerce and Federal Trade Commissions...
...whole system of governmental control of trade and commerce, as essential in America today as the Supreme Court, is based upon these three commissions. If they become the play things of party politics, changing from administration to administration, as they give every indication of becoming effective governmental regulation will disappear...