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Word: tradings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburg and Gary plus" systems have cost farmers and builders enormous sums every year, and the farm bloc is resolved to have them condemned under the Sherman Law as being " in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Enemies of Pittsburg Plus | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...investigations being conducted by the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission lay dormant in the week's news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUGAR: The Hunt Continues | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...habit in Foo-Chow, run by the head of the Opium Suppression Bureau, are really facilitating the sale and consumption of opium." He continues that bribery of the customs officials goes on on a large scale, and that "in the old days opium cultivation was voluntary and merely a trade; now it is a compulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Opium | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...more sensible course for large American consumers of rubber to enter the pres-ent "Rubber Syndicate" and cooperate with it in a fair stabilization of prices. Brazil's own experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Rubber Corner | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...demands of the somewhat mythical T.B.M. is demonstrated by the work of Florenz Ziegfeld and John Murray Anderson. The genius of these two gentlemen is responsible for raising the general level of musical revues in America far above that of any other country. They refused to subscribe to the trade dictum that people like the old jokes best, or that the old tunes can be polished up to look like new, or that stage sets designed by a scenic factory are for all practical purposes as effective as those designed by artists like Joseph Urban and Robert Locher. In short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Musical Hokum | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

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