Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more or less substantiated rumor has it that the Rumanian government, before adopting trade reprisals against Germany, will refer the commercial dispute to arbitration by competent American authorities...
...agreement between the above nations, Portugal making certain exceptions, to substitute government monoply of opium exports and imports for privately conducted trade. (The U. S. delegation wanted the source of production-i.e., the cultivation of the opium poppy-controlled progressively until finally restricted to purely medicinal uses...
Gold exports continue heavy, yet the country's large trade balance in recent months leads many financial writers here and abroad to predict that the out ward flow of gold from the U. S. will shortly halt and that we may even see some of the recently exported yellow metal come back to us again later in the year...
Last week, the U. S. Senate adopted a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to undertake an investigation of the General Electric Co. to determine whether it and its subsidiaries have acquired a monopoly or exercise a control in restraint of trade. Another resolution was adopted providing for an investigation of the American Tobacco Co. to determine similar facts and also whether there was a conspiracy to boycott tobacco growers' cooperatives. Senator Trammell of Florida proposed an inquiry into the rise in gasoline prices. A proposal has been made for an investigation in wheat and bread prices because...
...Interstate Commerce Commission was set up to prevent the latter. In 1890, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed to prevent the former. Later, the Federal Trade Commission was set up to aid in suppressing such practices and the Clayton Act to prevent interlocking directorates was passed. Meanwhile, the trusts were continuing. Things were getting bad and the country was getting frightened. Arthur T. Hadley, then President of Yale, conservative as he was, admitted, along about 1900, his fear that within 25 years the country would be ruled by an economic emperor at Washington...