Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to their own advantage and an enemy of the poor. This view is illustrated in the Ruhr where we see the influence of the powerful steel trust of Nance using the government to its own advantage. On the other hand, the German government is employing the trade unions to vitiate the force of the French, not through actual strikes, but by a withdrawal of efficiency. The situation in the Ruhr", the speaker pointed out, "is an excellent example of the inability of an army to combat an industry, and of the great power of organized labor in a modern...
...Leviathan, formerly the German Vaterland, now owned by the U. S. Shipping Board, will leave her drydock at Newport News about May 1 to resume her place as the second largest ship in the world. She will ply the Atlantic passenger trade as a rival to the Majestic, the largest vessel, and the Mauretania, the fleetest. Nearly 3,000 workmen were employed in her refitting...
...like people who represent the drink trade to be posing as admirals, generals, commanders, captains, and the like."-Lady Astor in a speech at Bristol. Lady Astor assured her audience that she was not out for the American brand of prohibition; all she wanted was the settlement of the question by local option. Her prohibition campaign is receiving important support from her husband's newspaper The Observer, published weekly at London...
...recent Reserve report contained data which gives an excellent perspective upon present business conditions. According to statistics covering the Second Reserve District contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...
...present trade expansion is of a fundamentally different order. Our dwindling exports reveal the fact that rising prices are due almost entirely to domestic demand, and not to foreign purchasing. It comes on a money market of vast unused resources and thoroughly deflated condition. Furthermore, all our Babbitts have learned the value of conservatism by bitter experience in recent years, and it is doubtful whether the unreasoning Moody and Sankey attitude toward increased production which swept the country the year after the Armistice will soon be repeated. A safe and sane rather than a delirious prosperity should be the result...