Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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... Suppose cotton is selling at 10 cents a pound and then jumps to 15 cents a pound . The average dollar cotton shirt weighs 9 ounces , but we will just say , for the sake of making the illustration simple , that it weighs a pound , 16 ...
... Suppose cotton is selling at 10 cents a pound and then jumps to 15 cents a pound . The average dollar cotton shirt weighs 9 ounces , but we will just say , for the sake of making the illustration simple , that it weighs a pound , 16 ...
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... suppose that anyone would ever buy or sell a future if they absolutely , positively knew that the price would always remain ex- actly the same thing ? Why , of course they would not . They deal in futures because they know that the ...
... suppose that anyone would ever buy or sell a future if they absolutely , positively knew that the price would always remain ex- actly the same thing ? Why , of course they would not . They deal in futures because they know that the ...
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... suppose that the present estimate of 100,000,000 bales is an exag- geration ? At that time they published the amount of business that they carried on , but since the agitation that was then in Congress they have ceased to publish the ...
... suppose that the present estimate of 100,000,000 bales is an exag- geration ? At that time they published the amount of business that they carried on , but since the agitation that was then in Congress they have ceased to publish the ...
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... five cents a hundred on a steer would amount to $ 12 or $ 15 a head . The fluctuation would seem to be quite as great in cattle as in cotton . Mr. BROOKS . Do you suppose that an exchange on 16 PREVENTION OF DEALING IN FUTURES .
... five cents a hundred on a steer would amount to $ 12 or $ 15 a head . The fluctuation would seem to be quite as great in cattle as in cotton . Mr. BROOKS . Do you suppose that an exchange on 16 PREVENTION OF DEALING IN FUTURES .
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... suppose that an exchange on cattle would prevent them from fluctuating ? Mr. HAUGEN . What ? Mr. BROOKS . Would an exchange on cattle prevent those fluctua- tions in the price of cattle ? Mr. HAUGEN . No. Mr. BROOKS . If they do not ...
... suppose that an exchange on cattle would prevent them from fluctuating ? Mr. HAUGEN . What ? Mr. BROOKS . Would an exchange on cattle prevent those fluctua- tions in the price of cattle ? Mr. HAUGEN . No. Mr. BROOKS . If they do not ...
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