Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make a stand in with those in power then they keep others out. The first insurance man is allowed to peddle his insurance under the pretext that he is a local man. It may not be in restraint of trade but it certainly gives a lot of people a chance to work a little graft. It never helps the town because a lot of the inhabitants get mad and buy from other places...
...Passed the Wheeler amendments to the Federal Trade Commission Act which would empower the Commission to proceed against individuals and corporations exploiting or deceiving the general public whether their practices are unfair to their competitors or not. Sent it to the House...
Three months ago five U. S. cotton textile men, headed by Dr. Claudius T. Murchison. went to Japan and accomplished something remarkable. The Japanese had begun to make alarming inroads on the U. S. market for cotton goods. In recent years the almost standard method of competition in foreign trade has been horse stealing-for exporters to steal as much of a foreign market as they could by underselling, for the victims to steal it back by imposing political quotas, tariffs and restrictions, fair or unfair. Dr. Murchison and friends in a mere ten days got the powerful Japan Cotton...
...first occurred last fortnight when Broker Housser played banquet host to 800 U. S. and Canadian bigwigs, including President Charles R. Gay of the New York Stock Exchange and President Kenneth S. Templeton of the Chicago Board of Trade. The party afforded a public opportunity for hosts & guests to brush up on such goodwill items as that the U. S. is Canada's best customer, that, next to Britain, Canada is the best U. S. customer, that the U. S. stake in Canada amounts to some $4,500,000,000 (far larger than the Mother Country...
First publisher to take advantage of the price-fixing provisions of New York State's Fair Trade Act since it was declared constitutional in a judicial flip-flop last month (TIME, March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were...