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...Launched a new attack upon basing-point price systems. The Federal Trade Commission already has three basing-point cases in the works-against the Cement Institute, the United Fence Manufacturers Association and the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman Act, forbidding price discrimination between customers, and of FTC rulings, forbidding price conspiracy between companies. Last week, for the first time, acting solely under the Robinson-Patman Act, FTC challenged gigantic Corn Products Refining Co.'s basing-point price setup, gave No. 1 U. S. producer of syrups...
...dumped sand at points where it would be handy to shovel into bags for bomb shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier, who is his own drastic, jut-jawed...
Lane-Wells Co., 208,006 shares of common stock at $15.25 a share. Back in Depression I, two middle-aged engineers named Bill Lane and Walt Wells, down to their last $500, perfected a gun with which they could shoot through the steel-&-cement well-casing of dry or abandoned oil wells at levels thought to be oil-bearing. Since then they have turned a pretty penny ($590,814 net in 1937, $310,458 to June 1938). Of last week's issue, floated to pay off loans and finance expansion, 58,006 shares were new securities, 150,000 were...
...George Weinberg, a sleek Schultz henchman whose brother and onetime associate Bo is reputed to lie on the bottom of the East River enclosed in a block of cement, said he was the business manager of the racket. "The Dutchman [Schultz]," said Mr. Weinberg, told him to pay Hines $500 a week. Sometimes, added Mr. Weinberg, Hines...
Quite apart from the immediate mobilization, the number of workers conscripted throughout Germany for rush work digging trenches, stringing barbed wire and erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...