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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1923-03-17
1923
Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing … trade commission that the company controlled prices by coercion, declared that "it was a question of the jail or the …
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1923-03-30
1923
Asserts lumber prices not fixed. - Seattle broker testifies in behalf of Douglas Fir Exploitation Company. - R. D. King … federal trade commission that the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company controlled the prices of lumber by coercion …, then he "knew that there was no effort made to fix domestic prices." …
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1928-08-24
1928
Weyerhaeuser Sales company, yesterday. The recent slump in lumber prices has been due to overproduction, and by curtailing the …
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1929-03-12
1929
Lumber price goes up. - Weyerhaeuser trustees told plan is to better earnings. - Trustees of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Corporation help their quarterly meeting yesterday at the office of the corporation in the Old National building. T. J. Humbird of Spokane, president of the Humbird Lumber company,...
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Expert systems and the CPI product substitution review: A needs analysis for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arrowood, L.F.; Tonn, B.E. - 2008
This report presents recommendations relative to the use of expert systems and machine learning techniques by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to substantially automate product substitution decisions associated with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Thirteen commercially available, PC-based...
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Expert systems and the CPI product substitution review: A needs analysis for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arrowood, L.F.; Tonn, B.E. - 2008
This report presents recommendations relative to the use of expert systems and machine learning techniques by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to substantially automate product substitution decisions associated with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Thirteen commercially available, PC-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436174
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Transport of solid commodities via freight pipeline: cost estimating methodology. Volume III, parts A and B. First year final report
Warner, J.A.; Morlok, E.K.; Gimm, K.K.; Zandi, I. - 2008
In order to examine the feasibility of an intercity freight pipeline, it was necessary to develop cost equations for various competing transportation modes. This volume presents cost-estimating equations for rail carload, trailer-on-flatcar, truck, and freight pipeline. Section A presents...
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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market
Noll, S. - 2009
The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services … if domestic energy prices were deregulated to reflect world market prices (now determined by OPEC) it is likely that …
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Lineamenti del commercio equo e solidale dei prodotti agroalimentari
Bracco, Salvatore; Riccardi, Giancarlo - 2008
, characterised by the increasing integration between the commodities and service sector, capital and labour sector and the financial … agricultural commodities sector. For this aim, the alternative approach to the international trade of food commodities is analysed …
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International Commodity Organizations and Governance of Global Value Chains
Burger, Kees; Daviron, Benoit; Flores, Vanessa - 2009
International commodity Organizations can play a role in reducing transaction costs between producer and consumer. The current organisations do this partly through statistics and collecting and disseminating market information, undertaking projects and convening meetings. Of a traditional focus...
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