Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trade. Imports increased 100%; exports 150%. Foreign trade at pre-War price was 25% of the pre-War figure. Two fifths of this trade was with Britain, but exports to the U. S. increased...
...Foches had long been in the wool trade. The grandfather, Dominique Foch (1733-1804), in addition to increasing his fortune from wool, had busied himself giving practical expression to his enthusiasm for Napoleon, after whom he christened his son (Marshal Foch's father) Bertrand Jules Napoleon. Foch pere did not continue in the wool business but, as the French say, entra dans I'Administration; in other words, he became a civil servant. In 1850, having married Marie Sophie Jacqueline Dupre, he was appointed by President Louis Napoleon Secretaire General de la Prefecture at Tarbes. Next year...
According to the Russian Information Bureau at Washington,* considerable progress in industry, as reflected in trade figures, was made by Bolshevik Russia during the fiscal year which ended...
...markets have acted very well under advancing money rates. Yet evidence accumulates that a turn in the trade cycle is at hand. For the first time in nine months, wholesale commodity prices have shown a general tendency to recede. In the basic industries, production is high and, while consumption is apparently good, a tendency to create heavy stocks and inventories is undoubtedly present. Easy money, by promising the wherewithal to carry these, is a factor facilitating the creation of a top-heavy business situation...
...unscrupulous dealings. Yet even today new giants are waging financial wars, or at least sparring for position in a great game of railroad chess. By the present deal, which was actually consummated months ago, the Rock Island Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that the "Black Belt" will be both an important factor in consolidating its freight system and a valuable power in any trade with the Pacific road...