Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at NRA's deathbed Mr. Lewis and the operators agreed that this private NRA-AAA for soft coal was an easy way out for them all. Only objectors were Southern coal operators, traditionally nonunion, low. price sellers who were always dissatisfied with their treatment under NRA. They wanted to continue negotiations to avoid a strike. Last week Mr. Lewis and the Northern operators, who want price-fixing, ganged up. They outvoted the Southerners, 44-to-9, to suspend all negotiations, i.e. have a strike June 17. By this means they figured Congress would be bludgeoned into passing...
According to Government figures, cattle & calves on the hoof totaled 60,667,000 last Jan. 1, as against 68,290,000 one year before, a decrease of 11%. Within the same twelvemonth Drought and AAA's corn-hog program reduced the number of hogs 35%, from 57,177,000 to 37,007,000, smallest in 50 years. Sheep and lambs, least affected by Drought, were down some 5% to 49,766,000 last January. Out of proportion to these decreases in supply were the increases in price paid by the packer. Hogs that cost...
...sketch in which a Jeeter Lesterish farmer suffers an AAA "professor" to destroy his wheat and cotton but shoots the professor when the latter wants to kill his mule...
...established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about...
Throughout last year the sugar market was in continual turmoil, harassed by quotas, taxes, tariffs, squeezes, innumerable AAA regulations and periodic stampedes to get sugar under this or that barrier. At the start of this year the future was beclouded by 240,000 tons of sugar carried over from last year's quota. The U.S. had used less sugar than AAA expected because canning and preserving was curtailed by the Drought. But in the first four months of this year, the big Manhattan sugar house of Lamborn & Co. estimates, consumption ran some 13.5% ahead of the same period...