Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate...
Roosevelt & Recovery had raised wages. New steel prices, up $3 to $4 per ton, had raised the cost of basic raw material. So last week the Automobile Industry, prize pupil of the President's Recovery class, raised its prices...
...House interstate commerce subcommittee voted to reduce basic margin requirements from 60 to 45 per cent. It also voted to delegate to the Federal Reserve Board the power to raise or lower the margin requirements...
...rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five-day week and a basic wage scale of $5 per day. By administrative order General Johnson promptly made it effective for the whole bituminous industry, thus making Coal's work week the shortest for any major industry. It was estimated that, including the cut in hours, the wage increase amounted to about $100,000,000 annually...
...British trade is bound to continue they estimate that Neville Chamberlain will have a surplus of approximately ?50,000,000 to toy with before the next budget must be presented April 17. Last week one result seemed certain-some relief for the British taxpayer who last year paid a basic rate of 25% on his income...