Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volumes of stenography and a ton of documents had been accumulated up to last week by the Federal Trade Commission in its investigation of the business and political methods of interstate public utility companies, ordered by the Senate last winter. President Coolidge, whose appointees the trade commissioners are, said last week that in his opinion the ton and the ten volumes contained nothing requiring federal action, that state regulators had power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution...
...Passed the Senate Bill to permit state regulation of interstate trade in prison-made goods...
What finally settled the debate was not the sweet reasonableness of Congressmen but the rapidity with which science advances. The boldness with which the so-called Power Trust plies its trade was another contributing factor...
...structures of many of their firms are topheavy and must be scaled down. As he often does, Mr. Baldwin took his text from the iron & steel industry which is the basis of his family fortune, and spoke with a certain rugged candor thus: "I am going with my own trade, the steel trade, through deep waters. Most of what I had was in that industry, and for every shilling I had when I took office I have something under a penny today.* . . . There is only one way out. In steel, as in other industries, there will have to be with...
...crisis chain store operators have feared, developed last week. The Senate passed a resolution calling upon the Federal Trade Commission to study how useful chain systems are, how bad, how they work...