Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of gasoline? In 1927 the Tennessee legislature had declared gasoline a "public utility," subject to state price-fixing. The Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana and the Texas Co. protested. The Supreme Court agreed with them. It ruled that gasoline is one of the "ordinary commodities of trade" and "not affected with public interest" and therefore not a public utility...
Meanwhile the Post Office order was regarded in shipping circles as a thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound...
...Meanwhile, however, reports that the mail orders were reprisals against Cunarders persisted, named T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, as the probable source of the "discrimination." Mr. O'Connor is, of course, vitally concerned with the Cunard competition in the Havana tourist trade. Also, he has invited U. S. shipowners to attend a marine conference in Washington (opening Jan. 23), to discuss methods of meeting foreign competition. But between Shipping Board and Post Office Department no connection can legitimately be established...
Booksellers everywhere have had a welcome opportunity to forget their depressing post-Christmas trade. A new light of encouragement has been cast upon their slackened business. Out of the noise and traffic of a materialistic metropolis has come the report that literature still commands enormous prices. For the purchase of valuable collections at public auction, buyers were not found wanting, even though the bidding ran unusually high...
...Mississippi Company was organized by the Scotch economist and gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole...