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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... profit than he has been getting . Is it not a fact that they take advantage of that to about double the price of the shirt ? Mr. BROOKS . People take advantage of almost everything they can make money out of ; but that does not at all ...
... profit than he has been getting . Is it not a fact that they take advantage of that to about double the price of the shirt ? Mr. BROOKS . People take advantage of almost everything they can make money out of ; but that does not at all ...
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... profit to those who control it would allow the very means by which it exists to cease to exist ? If it can be demon- strated that they have this power , that is positive proof that natural fluctuations are aggravated by the exchanges ...
... profit to those who control it would allow the very means by which it exists to cease to exist ? If it can be demon- strated that they have this power , that is positive proof that natural fluctuations are aggravated by the exchanges ...
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... profit - taking sales . One big block of the May option was reported as closing out purchases made at 13 cents . The selling sent prices back 5 to 7 points , continuing for half an hour or more . Farther along in the same column I find ...
... profit - taking sales . One big block of the May option was reported as closing out purchases made at 13 cents . The selling sent prices back 5 to 7 points , continuing for half an hour or more . Farther along in the same column I find ...
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... profits , arbitrarily interferes between the producer and consumer and undertakes to fix prices by sheer force of money and manipulation , we believe in suspending the rules and striking with the weapon at hand . The producer has the ...
... profits , arbitrarily interferes between the producer and consumer and undertakes to fix prices by sheer force of money and manipulation , we believe in suspending the rules and striking with the weapon at hand . The producer has the ...
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... profit . Twice during this season , however , we have gotten goods to a parity of 15 cents . In the early part of ... profits during the season . But suddenly futures declined , spots did not , and I was again left in the position of ...
... profit . Twice during this season , however , we have gotten goods to a parity of 15 cents . In the early part of ... profits during the season . But suddenly futures declined , spots did not , and I was again left in the position of ...
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actual cotton answer bales of cotton BEALL believe bill board of trade bought broker BROOKS bucket bucket shop BURLESON bushels buy cotton buyer CHAIRMAN Chicago commerce CONE consumer corn cotton merchants deal dealer deliver delivery of cotton difference eliminate fact farmer FITCH fixed fluctuations future contracts future delivery future market Galveston gambling gentlemen give grades of cotton grain HALLET handling HAUGEN hedge LATHAM legitimate LEVER Liverpool Liverpool Exchange low middling MANDELBAUM manufacturer margin MARSH matter mean MERRILL middling cotton mill month NEVILLE Orleans Cotton Exchange PARKER price of cotton price of futures producer profit question quotations reason rules sell seller SIMS Smith SNYDER sold South speculation spinner spot cotton statement supply and demand thing THOMPSON tion to-day transactions understand warehouse wheat wool York Cotton Exchange York Exchange
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Página 406 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 651 - In legislating upon the subject of the traffic in lottery tickets, as carried on through interstate commerce, Congress only supplemented the action of those States — perhaps all of them — which, for the protection of the public morals, prohibit the drawing of lotteries, as well as the sale or circulation of lottery tickets within their respective limits. It said in effect that it would not permit the declared policy of the States, which sought to protect their people against the mischiefs of...
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Página 306 - Now, I want to ask you if it is not a fact that the safety of a hedge depends upon a parity being maintained between the future price and the spot price ? Mr.
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