Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total "indemnity " of $7,500,000,000; annual payments of $265,600,000 beginning 1928 if an international loan were not immediately available; guarantees pledging Federal railway system; capitalized at $2,380,000,000 and a like sum guaranteed by a gold 5% mortgage on business, industry, banking, trade, traffic, agriculture...
Every schoolboy knows that Grand Rapids, Mich., is the center of the furniture trade in the U. S. Few even of the élite know that Grand Rapids is also the center of the vanishing cognate art of woodcarving. In the Ryerson Public Library the Woodcarvers' Association of Grand Rapids holds an annual exhibition, filled with the zeal of the medieval craftsmen. There are only about 1,000 hand-carvers in America, all told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives...
Artists and Models. Despite a scene "in Henry Ford's Cabinet, 1924" with William Jennings Bryan, Thomas A. Edison, Edsel Ford present among the secretaries, Variety, trade paper of the theatre and bulletin board of the stage, stated that Artists and Models was the " dirtiest revue " (in point of risque jokes) ever put on in New York and that if the police did not stop it, nothing else could...
Since February, 1923, when America's exports exceeded her imports by $4,000,000, every month until July reported an excess of imports over exports, or an " adverse balance of trade." Such an occurrence has not been witnessed for a generation, and never before in the history of the country for the reasons behind its recent trade returns. In June, however, the excess imports amounted to only about $1,000,000, and new July's trade figures show that once more a " favorable trade balance " has been established...
Exports last month totalled $310,000,000 while imports amounted to only $284,000,000, leaving excess exports of $26,000,000. For the seven months of 1923, however, the trade balance is still against the United States by the total...