Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...industrial organizations of the country have subscribed millions of dollars without hesitation, recognizing a duty which they would not avoid. But the extent of their support is limited. They have another obligation, quite as real, that they should keep the channels of business and banking open for the use of the nation...
...best thing that a young man under age can do now, while awaiting such congressional action, is to remain at college and take the military training there. I should not advise anyone to enlist before he is actually needed, for we must not use up all of our strength at once--if this is exhausted we should have little to fall back upon. You are like substitute football players, who are of great service although not actually in the game...
...sale of intoxicants. Without the first measure we could not have armies commesurate with our greatness; without the second we could not feed those armies; without the third we could not maintain the men of these armies in the highest state of ability, nor make the utmost use of our resources at home...
...appear, however, that monopolistic combinations by speculators dealing in "futures" is the cause of the rise in wheat. One clear point is that "cash" wheat has been pretty steadily higher than the nearest "future" since last fall--indicating that buying by those who want the actual wheat, to use or to store away, has been the proximate cause of the rise. Back of this, in the judgment of good students of the market, lies buying by the Governments of England and France, and frantic buying by housewives, enormous in the aggregate, which has forced the millers to unprecedented buying...
...doing, is called for. That is a man-sized job! The first step should be to call leading experts in the grain trade together. For patriotic reasons, as well as to protect the trade from disaster, they would respond. If a committee of grain experts, under Government auspices, should use their wonderful machinery for collecting information, they could probably in a short time find out the existing stocks of grain and flour and the probable future demands for various purposes at various prices. With these data, they could perhaps estimate the prices needed to bring supply and demand together. Such...