Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word-peace. . . . We have sought to promote peace not only by word but by appropriate action. We have been unwilling to surrender our independence. We have refused to ratify the Covenant of the League of Nations. But we have coöperated with it to suppress the narcotic trade and promote public health...
...German and Spanish Governments concluded a commercial treaty which was expected to work greatly to the disadvantage of the export trade of the U. S. and Britain with Spain. No details were published, but it was stated that the surtax on German imports was removed by the Spanish Government and that the German Government agreed to revalue the paper marks held by Spanish business houses...
...James Arthur Salter, chief of the League's financial section, in his turn likened the Experts' job of work to the bridging of many gulfs. John H. Fahey, a major fixture in the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, skimmed over the high points of a world trade revival that he and other business men had envisioned springing all golden from the Experts' foreheads...
...coming barrage of political bombast and fustian may chill the somewhat delicate bloom of trade and industrial sentiment. Indeed the stock market seems to reflect such an occurrence. Yet the country has survived many major political campaigns, and probably will manage to this year, too. Meanwhile prospects for better business are extraordinarily bright and pronounced, while current business for the most part is extraordinarily dull and unsatisfactory...
...Wall Street would presage general business activity to come from three to nine months afterwards. While this is by no means an invariable rule, still merchants in New York who are somewhat disgustedly conducting very languid "Summer clearance sales," are wondering if they, too, may not look for livelier trade this Fall and Winter...