Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows all about shoes as well as wire mesh, and deplores the reciprocal trade treaty with Czechoslovakia, an attitude which ought to make a hit with New England...
...Role of Law in Regulation" is the topic of Dean Landis speech. As a former member of the Federal Trade Commission and, until his appointment here last summer, chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, he speaks with authority on administrative law and regulation. His viewpoint in this respect was much influenced by a year he spent as secretary to Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Supreme Court...
...unfair trade practices, 24 of these were speedily agreed on and outlawed, the list ranging from defamation of competitors to tampering with speedometers. Only major point the dealers refused to concede was the price-fixing of trade-in values. This FTC is eager to forbid and may still do, but the dealers maintained that this stabilization of trade-ins was all that prevented ruinous price-wars...
...March, latest month for which trade figures are available, U. S. merchandise exports exceeded imports by $102,306,000. In March 1937 the reverse was true to the extent of $59,909,000. Changes wrought by drought, war and depression showed most clearly in specific cases...
...usual for the U. S. to have a favorable balance of trade-i.e., to export more goods than it imports. In the first quarter of 1937. however, because of the 1936 drought there were unusually large imports of agricultural goods which gave the U. S. an unfavorable trade balance of $113,959,000. Last year there was no drought and therefore U. S. trade figures for the first quarter of 1938, released last week by the Department of Commerce, again recorded a favorable balance. What was more, the balance was a sizable $320,662,000. Reasons for this were...