Professor Shotwell Urges Fellowships For Trade Research
Professor J. T. Shotwell urged fellowships in research for trade study citing Persian oil fields, Slavic sociology, and the decorative arts in Asia Minor. He urged endowing courses in oriental languages, geography, and anthropology to improve U S trade training and warned against haphazard methods in international commerce. He praised German cartel practice and Britain’s support for research as models for America to follow.
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J. T. Shotwell
Nicholas Murray Hutler
Columbia University
Columbia Quarterly
Asia Minor
New York
Hamburg
Britain
Imperial Development Board
British Trade Corporation
New Trade Intelligence Service
America
Shotwell
Germany
Public Robbed engagement broken amid prices inquiry
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Conway of 400 Union Street Brooklyn announce the engagement of their daughter Isabel to Frank W. Woodcock of 102 Gates Avenue, but the engagement is broken by mutual consent. The piece reviews wartime price fixing and profits across flour, coal, steel, oil, copper, and other industries, noting high margins for low-cost producers and ongoing government measurements.
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William J. Conway
Union Street
Brooklyn
Isabel Conway
Frank W. Woodcock
Gates Avenue
Commission
Standard Oil
Pri
Meat Packers Accused Of War Profits Surge In 1916 17
The Meat packers Armour Swift Cudahy and Morris are accused of quadrupling profits with a 160 percent volume rise. Total profits for 1916 1917 reach 140 million dollars, 121 million of which is excess over pre war levels. 1917 profits relative to net worth appear only 18.7 percent, while comparing to three prewar years shows 7.8 percent. The leather trade shows unusual profits in 1917 and 1918 profits rise sharply. Flour prices and miller margins also surge in 1917 amid price regulation.
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Morris, Wily
Campanion
War Industries Board
United States Steel Corporation
Caase
American Smelting and Refining Company
New Jersey Zinc Company
International Nickel Company
United States
Freeport
Union
Commission
Pacific Coast
South
Central
Pennsylvania
Armour
Swift
Cudahy
Morris
Wilson
Jirofita
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Trade Commission
Swift &O
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Swift and Co Deny Trade Board Profiteering Charges
Swift and Co reply to yesterday’s General Trade Commission charges accusing major packers of price manipulation. Louis P. Swift asserts the firm denies the accusations, claims competition with all packers, and says profits in the postwar period are fair and necessary for efficient packing operations.
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Swift & Co
Trade Board
Louis BF
Swift
General Trade Commission
Packers Defend Profits Amid War Demands
Swift & Co rebuts the Trade Commission's profits report, arguing the three year comparison to one year inflates gains, notes higher costs and stocks due to war, and defends salaries, accounting practices, and hide pricing claims while stressing packers fulfill war demands and do not hoard hides.
Raget and Allied Efforts Face Industry Theft Probe
Fragmentary OCR notes reflect efforts to study industry theft involving Our own and Allied groups. Key names and specifics are unclear, but the text suggests investigations into theft activities linked to military or industrial groups and their allies.
Packers Denounce Profiteering Charge As False
CHICAGO June 29 Armour & Co issued a statement condemning a Federal Trade Commission report as designed to mislead. The company argues profits of about 0.25% per unit are normal and notes wartime orders abroad exceeding $10 million forced capital raising. Morris & Co rejected FTC profit figures as misrepresentative, stating war-period profits were 3.7% on nominal capital and 14% on investment, with average three-year return about 10.95%.
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Steel Corporation
Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Pea Allan Wood, Iron and Steel Co
Allegheny Steel Co
Chicago
Armour & Oy
Federal Tekde Commission
Francis J Heney
Waombke
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Armour & Co
Morris & Co
Federae Commission
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Imeo
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