Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only statement of the size of the trade was that it-would be for a "substantial amount" of gold. A definite announcement might have caused convulsions in Shanghai's speculative gold market. "We would not want anybody to speculate," clucked Mr. Kung, setting comfortably on his new gold...
...noted experts in Oriental extortion, all jute is drawn by bullocks or floated down India's muddy rivers to the colonial city of Calcutta. There it is either bought by British manufacturers or made up for export by pukka ("reliable") balers. Most famed British name in the jute trade is that of Sir David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule...
While war talk is a stockmarket depressive it is always a shot in the arm for the grain market. As the bumper U. S. wheat harvest rolled north last week, the red cereal soared to a high of $1.26½ per bu. on the Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...
...frequent observation . . . that business sentiment is not as good as the business facts, especially in quarters influenced by the declines in the security markets. . . . The month of June completed a very satisfactory half-year in business, during which industrial production, employment and payrolls, the volume of trade, and business earnings were all higher than in any like period since the beginning of the depression. [In brief, farmers and other producers of raw materials have been getting good prices for their production, labor has had more work at high wages. Manufacturers of goods of everyday use have enjoyed a phenomenal activity...
...abnormal expansion of business, when measured against the needs to be filled and the capacity available to fill them, or when compared wit the past; and if the industries are allowed to operate with efficiency, keep their cost down, and price their goods at levels that will keep trade going, there will be little concern as to business in the second half year...