Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for these loans is that France has particular interests to safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...
...Chamber of Commerce. There was little unanimity in their counsels, however: Samuel Gompers called for better organization among the farmers; Governor Preus advocated organized study of their problems; Senator Capper declared that the farmers were ruined by manipulators of wheat prices, saying "the Chicago Board of Trade has become the world's greatest gambling place" (John R. Mauff, executive Vice President of the Board of Trade, threatened to bring suit for Senator Capper's "defamation of character" of the Board's 1,598 members); Julius H. Barnes warned the farmers against the fallacy of price fixing; Senator...
...principal of reciprocity in compensation to citizens of Soviet Russia injured by the British, as well as to British subjects injured by the Soviets was accepted by both parties. The note is considered to indicate that there is no further danger of a rupture of the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement...
...time, although after the record output of nearly one trillion paper marks in a single week, this development is not illogical. As bearing upon the general situation, probably the most important happening has been the establishment for the third successive month of an import surplus in our foreign trade of May, amounting to $51,000,000. This indicates that the long expected flood of foreign goods in our markets has begun, and that local manufacturers had best proceed with caution under our higher costs of production. The stock market, as if also motivated by a similar instinct for caution...
...beneficial to every one. The standards, which are now due to be followed all over the world, relate especially to discoloration, amount of foreign matter contained and care used in preparation for market; they were drawn up, not by the Government, but by a committee from the American cotton trade, and have now been approved by the foreign representatives in Washington. The grades comprise nine of white cotton and eleven of stained cotton. The new standards have been recommended for adoption by the European cotton exchanges by the foreign representatives, and it is anticipated that soon they will be recognized...