Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that " citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holdings, or stock control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the provisions of this act." The Federal Trade Commission, which undertook an exhaustive investigation of the international oil situation, reports that foreign oil corporations, such as the Royal Dutch-Shell group, the Anglo-Persian, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, and several French combines, have systematically discriminated against American oil companies in Mesopotamia, the Dutch East Indies, Persia...
Pointing to the menace of foreign penetration into United States oil fields, the Federal Trade Commission cites the Royal Dutch-Shell group as having acquired ownership of 11% of the world's production and 3.5% of specifically American production. The American companies named as being under foreign domination include the Union Oil Company (Delaware), the Union Oil Company (California), and the Shell Company (California). These together control over 240,950 acres of oil lands in the United States, including extensive properties in refineries, pipe lines, tank cars, and marketing equipment...
...were taken up with any other nation, the inevitable retort would be: " What are you doing about France ? " In addition, if we objected to the tariff preference given by Great Britain, for example, to her colonies over the United States, it would raise the question of our own free trade with the Philippines, which encourages American shipping...
According to the best figures now available, say the operators, 54 cents is the average margin between cost and realization per ton. Out of this 54 cents must be paid trade discounts and taxes, which reduces the average profit to not more than 35 or 40 cents...
...HAVEN, CONN., March 20.--It was announced here tonight that the Yale debating team will meet the debaters of the University of Washington an Thursday, March 29 in an intersectional debate in St. Louis, Mo., on the subject of "Trade Unionism". This debate will be held almost a week after the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triangular debate scheduled for next Friday...