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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Took first step under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 to lower gas rates. The Federal Power Commission gave Hope Natural Gas Co. of West Virginia 30 days to answer complaints that it was charging too much for gas in Cleveland...
...Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...
...exhibiting coalitions is one of the gravest perils that has ever confronted the motionpicture industry. For some time past this condition has been developing and now threatens to halt the industry's progress. . . ." Last week this prediction came home to roost as the U. S. Department of Justice, acting under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and quoting Mr. Zukor's words, brought suit against him and almost every other bigwig in the cinema business. But, vast as this trust-busting procedure appeared, it was no New Deal crackdown in the manner of those launched against the oil, aluminum...
Ever since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the utility industry has resembled a poker game with vast stakes and SEC Chairman William O. Douglas dealing. Last week, Bill Douglas dealt a new hand to an intriguing set of opponents-lean, smart, Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., fat, cunning Howard Hopson of Associated Gas & Electric Co. and bald, battle-worn Harley Clarke, late president of Utilities Power & Light Corp. As this hard-bitten trio of utility financiers studied their cards, kibitzers gathered thick around. For the play was the first test...
...death sentence" (section 11B) of the Act provides that once the utility holding companies have registered, SEC has the power to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Most commentators have expected that whatever company Bill Douglas chose to chop up first would ap peal the "death sentence" to the Supreme Court. Here, Bill Douglas was smart - he picked $303,813,000 Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair...