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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIRE PRICE FIXING was charged by FTC against 15 tire and tube manufacturers who account for virtually all of the industry's $2 billion annual sales volume. FTC alleged that the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S. Rubber-and others set up zoned pricing system on tires and tubes, which deprived purchasers near production plants of transportation cost savings...
...that some day Chicago's great packing industry would wither away. Last week economics was doing what reformers had failed to accomplish. Armour & Co. announced that it will end its packing operations at Chicago this summer; a month ago Swift decided to do the same thing. The other Big Three packer, Wilson, shut down in 1955. With the major packers gone, Chicago will become just another regional livestock market, with small packers slaughtering for the Chicago area...
Buffeted on all sides, Chicago packers made heroic attempts to cut costs by automating, but their big, old (up to 80 years), crazily laid-out buildings defied modernization. Even so, Chicago's competitors in other markets believed the city might have held on if its slaughtering operations could ever have stabilized at some reasonable volume. But nothing Chicago did could stop the drain. Whereas in the 1920s Chicago marketed and slaughtered up to 18 million head of cattle, sheep and pigs annually, this year its marketings are expected to be only 5,000,000. Some 2,000,000 head...
...reopening a five-year wage contract, the U.A.W. claimed a safety violation at Canton, then the supplier of all the rear axle shafts used in Ford cars and trucks. The U.A.W. held the unionists out five weeks, forcing Ford to shut down across the nation, grant the union a big pension fund increase. The Michigan Employment Security Commission ruled that the Michigan workers were involved in the Canton strike and so were ineligible for unemployment pay. A circuit court upheld the commission. But last January the state's highest court reversed the ruling, ordered the commission to pay Ford...
Early in 1924 in Paris, Harold Loeb was the proud possessor of: 1) a little magazine with big pages called Broom; 2) a mistress; 3) the manuscript of a novel, soon to be accepted with the publisher's proviso that Loeb put back all the "a's" and "the's" he had deliberately left out; and 4) the friendship of a fledgling expatriate writer, amateur boxer and soso tennis player named Ernest Hemingway, who dubbed Loeb "one of the better guys of all time." By the end of the fiesta at Pamplona, Spain in the summer...