Word: raw
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...several hours on the chance of being one of the two men wanted for one day's work. When you have seen such conditions you can realize the often-asked question of where the workers get their absurd idea of restricting output. If you see the pile of raw material getting smaller and smaller every hour, and your job going with it, you feel pretty sore...
...reaction came, however, about the first of 1920, when the public finally decided that it had had enough. Demand fell off almost overnight and merchants found themselves with much merchandise and little trade. Wholesale business came to a standstill in many lines. Prices began to fall on raw materials and are being reflected in wholesale quotations. The following table will give you an idea of the effect of this readjustment on some of our staples. Commodity. Jan.1920. Present Price. Percentage. of Jan. Price. Beans, bushel, $4.65 $3.50 75% Cocoa, .22 .10 45 Coffee, .15 1/2 .07 1/2 48 Cotton...
...nation's greatest problems, partly because they are afraid of it, and partly because it is not a popular issue. Yet immigration regulation is one of the unsolved questions of our time and, as yet, there seems to be no satisfactory solution. We feel deeply the lack of raw immigrants every day, when we are forced to pay unheard of wages to the unskilled laborers. Yet in times when we have had immigration, we felt equally keenly how they tended to lower our standards of living. Conditions on the East Side of New York were unbelievable. In 1914, there were...
...that some cars are actually being sold for less than the cost to the manufacturer of the labor and material in them, but philanthropy is not a business policy to satisfy the average investor and there is, as usual, an excellent reason. Motor car manufactures have considerable stocks of raw materials, and a careful study of the markets by their experts has foretold a slump in these markets. Shrewd business sense has therefore dictated the policy of unloading the present inventory of raw material quickly, and at a loss if need be, in order that a falling market...
...Cold, raw weather affected the playing of both baseball teams yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Saxony Worated Mills nine winning the first game of the fall schedule, 1-0. Cameron's triple, the only clean hit made by the Saxony nine, occurred just after Thayer had failed to net a short drive to centerfield and scored the opposing pitcher, Switzer, on base due to the misplay...