Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irregular stock market showed tendencies after Thanksgiving of turning dull. But the attention of the business community has for the time being abandoned Wall Street and other financial or trade centers, and has concentrated on the gathering of the new Congress in Washington...
...some time trade reports have had it that Henry Ford would ultimately have to enter the spinning, weaving and dyeing industry, if he were going to carry out his policy of manufacting all parts of his car himself. Now Lockwood, Greene & Co., famed engineers and specialists in textile mill construction of Boston, have announced that they have been engaged by the Ford Motor Co. to build a large mill in Detroit, and furthermore that "experiments now being conducted point to a highly abbreviated and highly automatic process in the new mill...
...autumn and holiday season trade thus far has justified rather completely the optimistic prophecies frequently made for it in earlier months. Employment is practically complete, wages in many lines are very high, and the public is buying goods in generous quantities. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales established a new high record during last October, which was 6% over the level reached the previous month. Sales of woolens have been particularly large; with cotton and silks dragging considerably behind. In anticipation of the Christmas trade, stores began to stock up in mid-autumn; the stocks...
...real question has never been how the merchants would make out this Winter, but whether their activity this season would continue next Spring. That question is still not easy to answer. It would seem that the Spring trade should be respectably large, if not of record-breaking proportions. Yet already a tendencey to cut prices and reduce stocks is discernible in the large stores...
...increase in the deposits of a commercial bank is mainly caused by and mainly reflects greater trade operations and the expansion of business indebtedness. When savings bank deposits increase, it is a sign of larger private savings and in general a reduction of individual indebtedness among the salary and wage-earning classes...