Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial arrangements come in for criticism. Under the present system, 90% of the income and corporation taxes collected by the Reich are transferred to the German States. The Experts recommended a reduction of this percentage but nothing has been done concerning it. Lastly, he laments that, since stabilization, foreign trade has been heavily adverse...
...world forum at Geneva, the Conference for the Control of the International Trade in Arms, Ammunition and Implements of War, called by the League of Nations for last May (TIME, May 11 et seq.), came to the end of its labors. Amid the clinking of Vermouth glasses and the attendant sounds of mirth, it was evident that the assembled delegates of 45 nations were well pleased with the outcome of their long negotiations...
...market for crude rubber has continued to rise, under the influence of light U. S. and British stocks, steady demand for the automobile trade and curtailed British production in the British plantations...
...have been tried repeatedly in the past few months; but, although traders have piped, the public refuses to dance. In consequence, the repeated spurts and reactions of highly speculative issues on the Exchange during recent weeks have had, for the, most part, no real significance for the future of trade. Yet the very condition of the stockmarket today? spotty, inflated in one place and apparently promising in another?is perhaps the market's way of prophesying a similar general condition in U. S. business during the balance...
...that public opinion rules the world, and we often say so carelessly, because by public opinion, we are apt to mean merely the ideas held by ourselves and the little group of people to which we belong. Nevertheless it is true that public opinion does rule. The slave trade was abolished by it, and so later was slavery--although in this case not without a struggle. Taking the civilized world over, corruption in public life, while not indeed, abolished has been greatly reduced, in the last two hundred years by the force of public opinion; and this has occurred...