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Abstract/Sommario: The history of plantation rubber - Background and development of the Stevenson plan for the restriction of the supply of crude rubber - Price movements - Administration of the Stevenson plan - Effect on production countries - Effect on the consuming country - Effect on the investing country - Theoretical cosiderations.

Abstract/Sommario: Modern changes in methods of marketing - The combination movement, unfair trade, and the common law - Development of legislative and administrative - The regulation of price policies - The regulation of sales promotion policies - The regulation of trade relation policies - Public policy and business standards.

Abstract/Sommario: The motor fuel problem - The composition of petroleums - General outline of the manufacture of petroleum products - Fractional distillation - Fluid flow and heart-transfer - Refinery equipment for distilling petroleum - Towers, dephlegmators, steam-stills, condensers, heat-exchangers, coolers, and other refinery equipment - The thermal reactions of hydrocarbons - Cracking processes - The chemical treatment of gasoline - Natural-gas gasoline - Alcohol, a motor fuel of the future - Compo ...; [Leggi tutto...] The motor fuel problem - The composition of petroleums - General outline of the manufacture of petroleum products - Fractional distillation - Fluid flow and heart-transfer - Refinery equipment for distilling petroleum - Towers, dephlegmators, steam-stills, condensers, heat-exchangers, coolers, and other refinery equipment - The thermal reactions of hydrocarbons - Cracking processes - The chemical treatment of gasoline - Natural-gas gasoline - Alcohol, a motor fuel of the future - Composite and miscellaneous motor fuels - Gasoline specifications and quality - Distillation in the laboratory - Methods of analysis - Useful physical data and tables.

Abstract/Sommario: The backgrounds of the movement - The growth of the movement, 1920-1926 - The purpose of organization of labor banks - Circumstances and methods of organization - Unique features of labor banks - Relations and attitudes - Policies and problems - The success of the movement (banking standpoint) - The success of the movement (labor standpoint).

Abstract/Sommario: Localization - The geography of raw material consumed in New England Mills - The part player by power in the various stages of New England cotton manufacturing - The status og geographic factors in a present-day interpretation of New England cotton manifacturing - Certain economic aspects and adjustments which characterize the New England cotton textyile industry.

Abstract/Sommario: employment - Wages - Hours - safety - Health - Collective bargaining - Social insurance - Enforcement of laws.

Abstract/Sommario: Conflicting ideals and programmes - Socialist boring from within - Communist boring from within - Different methods of boring from within - Dual union types - Conditions fostering dual unionism - Basic causes of dual unionism - The fortunes of dual unionism - I.W.W. Organising methods - I.W.W. failure to obtain stability - I.W.W. propaganda accomplishments - Persistence of dual unionism.

Abstract/Sommario: The problem - The economic status of women to-day - Constitutional bars and limitations - Can women workers be organized? - Women as member of trade unions - Assets and liabilities.

Abstract/Sommario: A new attitude toward unemployment - How some of us have met unemployment - The facts of Unemployment - The costs of unemployment - Public policies to relieve unemployment - Insurance against unemployment.

Abstract/Sommario: The economic status of the Soviet union - The five-year plan - The first year of the plan - Soviet-american trade - The second year and the further perspectives - The prospects of Soviet-American trade.