Food for Man and Beast. The story of the London Corn Trade Association, the London Cattle Food Trade Association and the Grain & Feed Trade Association, 1878-1978
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- Author(s) Barty-King, Hugh
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1978
- Pages 107pp; illus
- Publisher Hutchinson Benham
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides an account of the evolution of the various associations with details of the markets [including futures markets] in which their members operated and of the market processes with illustrations of trading contracts. Includes details of connection with Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange. Chapters include: 'In nineteenth century London, centre of the world grain trade, the LCTA fills a long-felt want, 1878-1900'; 'The changing pattern of twentieth century corn trade fathers the LCFTA, the LGFA - and the Depression, 1900-38'; 'Forty years of progress retarded by a second world war, boosted by the EEC and topped by the formation of GAFTA, 1938-78'. Lists of Presidents, etc