Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trade Information. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law the Government prosecuted the Maple Floor Manufacturers Association and the Cement Manufacturers' Protective Association for conspiracy in restraint of trade, in that they gathered and disseminated among competitors certain information regarding their business. The lower courts upheld the Government's contention...
...open to question that the dissemination of pertinent information concerning any trade or business tends to stabilize that trade or business and to produce uniformity of price and trade practice. . . . But the natural effect of the acquisition of wider and more scientific knowledge of business conditions on the minds of the individuals engaged in commerce, and its consequent effect in stabilizing production and price can hardly be deemed a restraint of commerce, or, if so, it cannot, we think, be said to be an unreasonable restraint, or in any respect unlawful...
...decide only that trade associations or combinations of persons or corporations which openly and fairly gather and disseminate information as to the cost of their product, the volume of production, the actual price which the product has brought in past transactions, stocks of merchandise on hand, approximate cost of transportation from the principal point of shipment to the points of consumption, as did these defendants, and who, as they did, meet and discuss such information and statistics without, however, reaching or attempting to reach any agreement or any concerted action with respect to prices or pro- duction or restraining competition...
...note was received in anger by Germany. President Hindenburg pre- sided over a Cabinet council, but the probable action of the Government was not divulged. Spokesmen in the Wilhelmstrasse said that the note was dictated through fear of German trade with the U. S. and that, if the property ordered destroyed by the Allies, which they valued at $25,000,000, is destroyed, it will be impossible for Germany, suffering such a loss, to live up to the Experts' Plan...
Editor and Publisher, trade paper of journalism, put the question: "Will you?" to the newspapers of the country and published their answers. It also gave its own opinion...