Word: basinger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
For his dinners, Judge Gary in 1911 substituted the famed "Pittsburgh Plus" system-any steel consumer paid the Pittsburgh base price plus freight from Pittsburgh to his door, even though the steel might come from a mill in an entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of...
This year, storm clouds again began to gather. With a new Depression, Franklin Roosevelt took to grousing about the rigidity of steel prices. The Federal Trade Commission launched an attack on the basing-point system used by the cement industry (TIME, April 25). Then came the Wheeler-Lea Act which...
Fortnight ago Big Steel not only yielded gracefully to President Roosevelt's demand for price cuts, but quietly took what Iron Age called "a long step toward abolishing the controversial basing-point system." It lowered Birmingham and Chicago prices to a par with Pittsburgh (TIME, July 4). The price...
In upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879...
¶ Climaxed its drive on what President Roosevelt considers the monopolistic practices of the cement industry. The industry has long maintained that local monopolies can be avoided only by a cooperative, nationwide, delivered-price system including both production cost and delivery cost as determined from a number of basing points...