Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the same one, and I think we will wait until morning to see which has kicked the other out." At Bewdley he outlined his general policy and said he knew what he was up against. The opposition seized upon the salient point of the Premier-his pipe. Free Trade posters depicted him smoking " Baldwin twist" in it and producing fumes labeled " high prices," with the inevitable John Bull in the background pinching his nose and saying: "The smell is enough." A cartoon entitled...
Choked showed the Premier drawing furiously at his pipe, which is marked " Trade " and filled with " protective mi ture." A conservative poster, however, showed him smoking a mixture of tariff slogans with evident enjoyment. The voter is asked to " put this in your pipe and smoke...
...constructive side the Party advocated reopening full relations with Russia; free trade; credit on enterprise, such as development of internal transport by road and water, to cure unemployment; afforestation; reclamation and drainage of land; development of Imperial resources; railway building in the overseas nations; emigration; cheapening of inter-Imperial transit; remodeling of the Insurance (TIME, Nov. 19) and Poor Relief Acts; promotion or cooperation between Capital and Labor; Government assistance to farmers...
...Millikan is interested, as a world citizen, in more than the shoptalk of his trade. He is an influential member of the National Research Council and of various civic bodies. Recently he was instrumental in preparing a proclamation (TIME, June 4) signed by some 40 distinguished clergymen and scientists, that there is no incompatibility between essential religion and science. An article by him in a similar vein (A Scientist Confesses His Faith) appeared in the Christian Century for June...
Although demand has also declined, the trade has been greatly encouraged of late by the large volume of inquiries which have appeared. Of course many inquiries represent only a jockeying for lower prices, and cannot be considered equivalent to actual orders. Yet steel plates have begun to show activity from revived programs of shipbuilding, tin plate orders are good, and the Japanese government has bought large amounts of steel for rebuilding its devastated areas. This, coupled with the unabated movement for domestic construction, has been especially cheering to the steel trade. Thus far, the raw material lines of the industry...