Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high tariff and an adverse trade balance-this is the anomalous condition brought about in this country by a peculiar set of economic conditions. When the Fordney-McCumber Tariff was enacted economists felt that it would largely cut off Europe's opportunity to pay its debt to this country in goods. Imports into the United States during March amounted to $402,000,000. This is the highest figure since August, 1920, and reflects the current trade boom and its increased purchasing. Since imports are so largely raw materials, it also reflects heavy current manufacturing. Meanwhile our exports have continued...
Unemployment in the United States has almost ceased to exist. In all industrial districts there is an increasing demand for skilled labor that parallels the general demand for unskilled labor and farm workers. In New York every industry is undermanned-as is the case generally in the East. Trade is booming in every state. The South and Southwest need farmhands. Liquor and beverages, lumber, vehicles, paper, chemicals, stone, clay and glass industries have vastly increased employment since March. Thus labor has turned the corner and need fear little more reaction. With immigration restricted, there is a " corner in labor " that...
Professor Hauser outlined the narrow policy of the French governmental trade restrictions of the Sixteenth Century, taking as an example the prohibition of the sale of "Indian" or printed cloth...
...United States, and the sole purpose of the Boston Bank in proposing this branch, is to take advantage of the peculiar political relations existing between the United States and Cuba, and of the already large investment of American capital in the island, for the further developing of American trade and American banking...
...special change was experienced in the general trend of American business during the past week. The steel and iron trade continued production at its recent sensational levels, but with an evident slackening of future contracts, as shown by the falling off in U. S. Steel's unfilled orders. Nevertheless the sensitive stock market continued its decline, now, despite temporary rallies, a severe one. The peak has obviously been reached for the time being in the building trades, and in New York alone over $100,000,000 of new construction is reported to be held in abeyance until the rise...