Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Premier Bruce's proposals came the offer of the British Government, through Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme, President of the Board of Trade, to extend a preferential tariff to the Dominions on dried fruits, dried currants, preserved fruits, sugar, tobacco. The offer is liable to alteration and enlargement in subsequent discussion. The Dominion representatives received the Imperial Government's offer with much gratification. India, however, complained that as most of her exports went to foreign lands, she would receive no advantages under the proposal...
...Department of Commerce reported a trade improvement in Italy. It was stated that " the usual Fall revival in trade has not yet taken place, but rising imports of raw materials indicate an increase in industrial activity over 1922. Railway traffic is increasing and the revival in building activity is maintained. Crops have proved larger than the preliminary estimates...
...courses in History or English. Nobody, in suggesting changes in the course menu, would desire to have all science courses black-balled. There are, no doubt, courses in science as in other departments, although probably more in science, which should be marked "Primarily for graduates"--courses of a direct trade-school nature. But Biology I is not such a course...
...number of undergraduates would not greatly diminish the number enrolling in biology I, wherein lies the suggested cure? The Coroporation has declared that at present another course is out of the question. This must be due to lack of means in money and room space. The elimination of undergraduate "trade" courses should relieve to a considerable extent both the present congestion of class-room conditions and the drain upon University funds. In such a case the Corporation might find its present difficulties melting pleasantly away...
...said, the course of business is not purely fortuitous or haphazard. By studing the price movements in the United States for the past 20 years, an index of trade for the United States has been obtained. This chart reveals a well defined ebb and flow of prosperity and depression. First comes a period of business depression, then a recovery; this is followed by a period of prosperity followed by financial strain, which ultimately brings about a financial crisis. These five phases, each leading into the other, are known as the business cycle...