Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Britain: The Russian Co-operative Societies have appointed Mr. E. F. Wise, Lloyd George's former adviser, as their Foreign Trade Director in London...
...does for the dramatic ones. The realm over which Mr. Hugo will Czar it is that of educational and religious pictures. There are, says Harry Levey, President of the National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc., 40,000 moving-picture machines now being operated in churches, schools, clubs, boards of trade, and similar institutions. On the other hand there are only 16,000 moving-picture theatres in the country. New machines are being bought by private institutions at the rate of 500 a week. Mr. Hugo will get a salary of about $100,000. Mr. Hays gets...
Commission house opinion is to an unusual extent agreed that this regularity in prices will probably prove only a breathing spell in a continuing bull market. Trade news is altogether encouraging, and call and time money readily available at reasonable figures...
...this January resulted from much larger gross receipts, although operating expenses had exceeded those of January, 1922, by more than 20 per cent. This increased expense has, of course, largely been occasioned by much needed purchasing and repairing of equipment, impossible during previous leaner years. If the expansion of trade continues, railroad gross receipts should continue large, and permit a continued policy of improving equipment; this should in turn begin to reduce the item of " maintenance," which has naturally been proportionately heavy while old equipment had to be used. Such a policy is always most expensive...
...advancing money rate as recently shown by Reserve rediscounts and Treasury certificates, but also because of selling by banks. During the recent business depression, in the absence of suitable commercial paper, many banks invested their funds in Liberty Bonds to an unusual extent. The present expansion of trade and advance in commodity prices have led to increased mercantile borrowings from banks, which are now beginning to sell their Liberties to accommodate their depositors. The market for Liberties is too broad to reflect this bank selling by violent fluctuations, and it has been discernible only in their gradual fractional decline. Liberties...