Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Site. A political trade planted Washington on the Potomac mudflats. Thomas Jefferson gave Southern support to Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from...
Facts are that last January the Reichsbank lowered its rate from 7% to 63%, "for the purpose of stimulating German trade." That desideratum was not attained. Instead the attraction of abnormally high money rates in Manhattan and other foreign capitals operated to deplete seriously the Reichsbank's gold reserve. The only possible counter-move was to raise the rate last week, and in Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January...
...report of the Harvard Business School was limited to interstate transmission of electrical energy in 1926 no comparison was made with any previous period; and no indication was given that the whole trend of the electrical industry, as shown by Professor Ripley and by reports of the Federal Trade Commisson itself, is in the direction of interstate transmission...
...Federal Trade Commission's investigation, which was the outcome of the Walsh resolution, was the confined, in its opening phase, to the so-called public relations and educational activities of the public utilities, especially the National Electric Light Association. The investigation developed the fact that a systematic, nation-wide organization, termed by its critics a "propaganda machine", was operated by the light and power interests to influence public sentiment through the press and the schools and colleges...
...this paid for? According to evidence submitted to the Federal Trade Commisson. Mr. Aylesworth, managing director of the National Electric Light Association, said at a convention in Birmingham...