Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should not continue to do so. If Russia were what she was ten years ago, she could be of great service to the European nations, with her large supplies of grain, timber and other products. But today she is producing nothing, and is able to purchase nothing. What could trade with her amount to? She could supply none of the other nations' needs, and she could buy nothing from them, unless somebody loaned her the money with which to pay for things. And who is going to lend money to a Government which denies the right of private property...
...adolescence. There is no need to be disturbed about them. They will continue while the economic system that nourishes them endures. They have no relation to learning, theoretical or applied. So let them stand. There are in the second place, the colleges associated with technical, professional graduate and trade schools. Time and circumstance are taking care of the college in this group also. The term of so-called "liberal arts" work is now cut to about two years, and the course of instruction is still in process of dissolution. In a little while it will have no reason for existence...
...English foreign policy largely determined by India. Every great war within the last 20 years has had its India angle. The economic life of the British isles in bound up with the India trade, because India has been made dependent upon England for her manufactured goods. It is this Indian trade which has given England a large part of her present manufacturing strength. The 14 percent tax which has been placed on all manufacturing machinery brought into India is a striking proof of England's desire and need for a monopoly. Ghandi had two and half million spinning wheels manufactured...
...Ripley and Dr. R. S. Merlani 14 have awarded the first prize of $100 to Irving Jacob Rosebloom '23, of Chicago, Ill., and the second prize of $25 to Raymond Samuel Fanning '23, of Chattanooga, Tenn. The contestants for the prizes submitted essays on the subject: "Are Trade Unions a Benefit or a Detriment at the Present Time to Labor...
...such that there seems to be little hope for any immediate economical reconstruction. Then, too, there is the question of the communistic confiscation of property--one of the most difficult problems that the Genoa conference is now facing. It is beyond reason to expect American shippers to reestablish trade relations with Russia with the Bolshevist blockade still in operation. Russia has nothing to offer, her credit is no good, and the risk incurred by the shipper is too great...