Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from the industrial group to Premier Baldwin outlines the serious condition of British trade and industry. The letter describes the present depression as " due to political uncertainty, lack of confidence, war wastage of wealth and loss of purchasing power among our customers...
...outburst on the part of the Dutch people against the proposed Government plan to increase the Navy, which means that the taxpayers will be burdened with new taxation at a time when economy should be the paramount consideration, especially since the Ruhr occupation has had disastrous effects on Dutch trade. There seems little chance of the Government obtaining a majority in the Second Chamber for a Navy bill...
...Dutch East Indies. The Netherlands owns a colonial empire east of Singapore that includes the huge islands of Java, Sumatra and portions of Borneo. The area of the empire is 733,642 square miles, the population 50,000,000 and in 1921 its total import and export trade amounted to roughly 2,500,000,000 guilders...
...Reduce the army and navy. Prepare for trade, not for war. Build up the merchant marine; subsidize it more, if necessary, instead of building more warcraft...
...Capper-Tincher bill, which in theory placed American grain exchanges under the supervision of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has never produced any practical change of importance in the rules and practices of the Chicago Board of Trade. Recently the Federal Trade Commission has, in compliance with a Senate resolution, conducted an investigation of that market, and in its report makes several recommendations regarding desirable changes in the present mode of operation...