Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This desire to eliminate waste has taken the Secretary of Commerce into strange fields and into many different problems. His Department has struggled with such questions as unemployment, seasonal construction in building, coal mining, super-power possibilities, standardization of products, cooperative marketing and the reduction of housing costs. Even trade association activities and street and highway safety have not gone unregarded...
...Revenue Blair has hampered the work of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Moreover, the bill would remove the control of industrial alcohol from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the Prohibition Unit. The League claims that "6,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol was used last year to supply the illicit trade. Reduced to 40% whiskey, this provided 240,000,000 half pints of bootleg." The bill would also place the Prohibition Unit under the merit svstem. Secretary Mellon approved this bill. Its last feature, the application of civil-service rules to the Unit, is generally approved...
...drug trade and the users of industrial alcohol are most earnestly opposed to the measure. They assert that the present restrictions on the use of alcohol are very severe, but that, under the Prohibition Unit, conditions would be worse; that they would be placed at the mercy of a group of agents not gifted with an understanding of their legitimate business needs?sleuths, in fact, whose sole training has been to regard every user of alcohol as a criminal...
...thinks that Harvard made a mess of that George Pierce Baker deal. "Why didn't they trade him," he asks, "for Tad Jones, Ducky Pond, Lovejoy, and three other players?" Heywood Broun in the New York World...
...further apart than New York and Chicago. It is only 700 miles from your Aleutian Islands to the first of our Japanese islands. On a clear day you can look across from your Philippines and see the snow-capped peaks of our Formosa. In the second place our trade relations are becoming greater and greater. Japan will be the force which will awaken the Orient to a new era of economic prosperity. China is out of the picture for at least 50 years to come. It will be we who will touch the latent energy of China...