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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guffey-Vinson Act split the U. S. into 23 coal-producing districts, each with a branch office supervised from Washington by the B. C. C. Also created were ten minimum price areas. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (covering Iowa and all the U. S. east of the Mississippi), which produce 80% of all U. S. soft coal, are those affected by last week's price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according...
...guard against regimentation and bureaucratic unfairness, the Guffey-Vinson Act established a Consumers' Counsel (at present Senator Couzens' onetime Secretary John Carson) whose duty it is to protect the public. So far he has had about 200 complaints to present to the Commission. Most publicized came from the Association of American Railroads which last week asked that the new price schedules be delayed for further study because they mean a $20,000,000 added annual burden to the greatly depressed U. S. railroads. B. C. C. refused. In case coal prices begin to get out of hand...
...Butler, Pa. until 1923 when he began his coal career as president & general manager of Erie Coal Mining Co. A member of Governor Pinchot's Pennsylvania Coal Commission in 1931, he had a hand in drafting the NRA coal code, went to Washington under the first Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this backing has wavered (and it has done so frequently over patronage, office furniture and Senatorial meddling) B. C. C. has spluttered like wet coal. Last month...
Meanwhile, B. C. C. is facing its crucial test, a challenge on constitutional grounds from the doughty Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. Carter Coal brought the suit which resulted in the Supreme Court's invalidation of the original Guffey Act. It would dearly love to do the same with the Guffey-Vinson Act...
...Airmail rates have been drastically low ever since the notorious air mail contract cancelations of 1934 and the abortive Air Mail Act it produced. Airlines are generally considered a heavily subsidized industry, actually are barely so, since sales of stamps almost equal Post Office payments to the lines ($12,000,000 for domestic lines for the fiscal year...