Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actuary's figures were accepted for 1925 because he was believed to have more experience in estimating future world trade conditions. He believed there would be a falling off of trade. This view seems to be substantiated by a gradual falling off of customs' receipts?as compared to the previous year?since Jan. 1 of this year. Results: $83,000,000 decrease from the Director of Customs' estimate...
Jacob Viner '15: Canada's Balance of International Indebtedness 1900-1913. This is, the first comprehensive and thorough inductive test of the classical explanation of the mechanism of international trade between gold-standard countries in its larger and fundamental aspects...
...stock in trade in a minister's career is his own character, and not the mere material ability of his hands or of his head. What his heart really is that is his capacity as a minister. Everything that he does to improve his character, be it learning to curb his emotions, or to give to the poor, makes him a better and a more successful minister. To be a worthy minister, a man must be fine all the way through, whether at home or in the church or in travel. A lawyer can be deeply immoral...
...however, of just what these types of advanced training would consist. A process of elimination would lead one to believe that there is in reality no place for any additional variety of educational institution between the high school and the college. If a man wishes to work at a trade, for example, he either becomes an apprentice at an early age, or takes a course in a regularly equipped vocational school, many varieties of which already exist. Similarly, if the high-school graduate desires special training in clerical or business work, he goes to one of numerous institutions established...
American cargo steamers operating from New York or Boston are obviously handicapped by this advantage of the British shippers, as they are by the undiversified character of American export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...