Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the archfoe of the chain stores should team up with wholesalers did not strike anyone as particularly strange. Mr. Patman's bill to tax chain stores out of existence ($50 to $1,000 per store times the number of stores in a chain, times the number of States in which the chain operates) is due to come up in the next Congress, and chain store merchants have been worried for months...
...weary rank-&-filers similarly united at Corpus Christi, Texas last month and at Stockton, Calif, two weeks ago. When the movement spread to Sacramento, President Bill Hutcheson of the A. F. of L. carpenters threatened to revoke the local carpenters' charter if they joined the new council. C. I. O. West Coast Director Harry Bridges applauded the trend, declared action for peace must come from the bottom...
...well-drilled team that performs excellently as a unit also. The problem of the defense, which was most badly weakened by graduation of mainstays from last year's six, seems to have been eliminated in a more than satisfactory manner through the work of Charlie Houghton, Win Jameson and Bill Coleman...
...Supreme Court invalidated AAA's processing taxes, which had been paying most of the subsidy bill, and a worried Congress hastily patched up the old soil conservation law to deliver as "soil conservation payments" the checks the farmers wanted. With subsidies at $287,000,000 and income at $7,920,000,000, Franklin Roosevelt carried 46 States...
...forecast by Bill Noufeld, assistant coach, Daniel Miles captain of the Husky squad, and Bob Partlow '41, fought a pitched battle in the high jump event. Partlow cleared the bar at 6 feet 2 inches which is his consistently high mark. Miles vanquished him with a jump of 6 feet 4 inches a half inch short of the record he set as a Sophomore in 1936. Miles narrowly missed clearing 6 feet 6 inches...