Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happens that the packing business is regulated by a Federal Statute, "The Packers and Stockyards Act," which specifically governs it. This statute, supplementing the broad provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, forbids, inter alia, restraint of trade...
Business was, last week, marking time and watching the stockmarket for indications as to future developments in trade and industry...
...driving up their price rapidly in the Stock Exchanges. Although the latter movement has apparently halted, for the time being at least, the public still clamors for new securities and absorbs them readily. The Dodge financing is proof of that. With money as easy and abundant as it is, trade may languish for a time, but it can scarcely experience any severe jolts or curtailments...
...weight of the evidence, however, is against an attempt to make prohibitionists of them. If the anti-Saloon League is to be believed, all of them would have died long ago if they had sampled their own wares. Furthermore, bootleggers are already earnest advocates of prohibition; because their whole trade is dependent on a federal enforcement which is neither too strict nor too lenient...
...policy was "meant seriously and for a long period." Under the Newest Economic Policy, private capitalists will enjoy the same privilege as Government monopolies, trusts and cooperatives. Bolshevik banks will extend credit, taxes will be lowered, private property restored. Practically all administrative and economic pressure on internal trade was removed...