Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expansion in production and trade, and the upward trend in raw material prices, were both strongly maintained. Perhaps the most interesting and significant examples of economic tendencies now visible throughout almost all lines of business, have been furnished by recent developments in iron, steel, oil, cotton...
...there is some indication in trade circles that recent price advances are already checking buying. This is natural enough, with pig selling at practically $30 per ton, or about $11.58 above the level of a year ago. In the present type of steel market, the first indication of an important curtailment of either production or prices will, of course, be seen among the independent companies, rather than with the more stable and less speculative Steel Corporation...
...bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River, who have demanded a 29% wage increase, to offset the cut of 22½% made in January, 1921. This suggestion of renewed labor difficulties comes rather early in the current business cycle...
...writer of letters to the newspapers points out that children set to learn a trade do their learning during business hours whereas school children do most of their work at home. The result is that their homes are turned into " mental sweatshops," their parents are robbed of peace, and there results "much bickering and bitterness...
...Appeals for the Second Circuit handed down a decision of great importance to those manufacturers and jobbers who have feared legal complications as a result of some customary selling or distributing method. The decision was upon an appeal of the Mennen Company against an order of the Federal Trade Commission. This order forbade the Mennen Company to adopt any system of discount upon the basis of a classification of its customers as jobbers, wholesalers, retailers, " or any similar classification which relates to the customers' form of organization, business policy, business methods." The Mennen Company argued that it was entitled...