Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Germany to other countries was impossible. If, therefore, payments had to be made in kind or in services, how could transfer of goods be made without harming the creditors, and how could services be made to pay reparations without prejudice to the creditor country's industry and trade and injustice to its laboring classes? It simply could not. M. Janssen, Belgian Finance Minister, was of a similar opinion...
...nation in the world (the U. S. is the world's greatest creditor), should shatter her tariff wall and assist the depressed European nations to increase their exports. But, above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed. The U. S. delegation gasped. The French grew faint. Belgians were dazed. The entire conference was dejected, dismayed. Germans once again jubilated. Perhaps, after all, they would...
...situation in outline was as follows: To assist the coal trade by reducing production costs and to decrease the ever-swelling army of unemployed, the mine owners decided to cancel a national wage agreement with the men and to call for an eight instead of a seven- hour working day. In effect, this raises the workers' weekly earnings...
Following this outburst, the Government gingerly introduced a bill to levy import duties on agricultural and industrial products. If passed, the bill will operate heavily against U. S. exports, but the Government sees only the necessity of protecting the growth of trade deficits abroad...
...agreement taxation on certain occupations mainly in the hands of the Jews was reduced. The numerus clausus system of limiting the number of Jewish students was modified. Jewish traders are to be allowed to open their shops for two hours on Sundays. The withdrawal of licenses to trade in articles under Government monopoly was abandoned...