Word: alcoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single corporation. There are manufacturers of aluminum pots, pans, propellers, but only one U. S. producer of virgin aluminum-Aluminum Company of America, dominated by Andrew William Mellon & Family. The hearing soon settled down to a clean-cut fight between the independent fabricators, who must not only buy from Alcoa all their aluminum (except scrap) but also market their wares in competition with Alcoa, which is by far the biggest fabricator. The independents objected to three things in the code which the Association of Manufacturers in the Aluminum Industry had submitted...
...That the code was to be administered by the Association, at whose council tables Alcoa's voice is loudest, instead of by a government administrator...
...That the code's clause banning sales below cost contained no provision that Alcoa must figure its costs of fabricated wares on the price it charges for raw aluminum. If Alcoa based the price of its fabricated products on the price it charges itself for raw aluminum, the independents claimed that Alcoa could undersell them at all times...
...That there was only one code. The independents wanted one for themselves, another for Alcoa...
Gardner Advertising Co. ($1,000), for the best national campaign for a specific product (chairs of Alcoa Aluminum, "Strong to stand up in the battle of Big Business...