Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tougher orders were in the works. Over the protests of the building industry, NPA was drawing up orders to limit construction of such "frivolous" enterprises as dance halls, nightclubs, race tracks and bowling alleys. The order, it was estimated, would save $500 million worth of steel, cement and other construction materials a year...
Smith's mother earned a living as a dressmaker and piano teacher and son Oliver helped out with paper routes and later with jobs as gardener, high-school janitor and cement plant worker. After high school, he spent a year in a logging camp, then worked his way through the University of California at Berkeley. Gardening is still his favorite hobby. His specialty: roses...
...tubing-all as neatly packaged as loaves from a bakery. Near the bundles, giant machines with an endless chain of buckets ate into the earth, taking just 13 minutes to dig a narrow, four-foot trench around a 25-by-32 ft. rectangle. Then came more trucks, loaded with cement, and laid a four-inch foundation for a house in the rectangle...
...industry, which has been prosecuted before on other matters after taking such assurances at face value, would probably think twice before testing Truman's promise. And such industries as steel, cement, etc., which were most affected by the 1948 Supreme Court decision outlawing the basing point system, had no need to absorb freight. They could sell all they produce f.o.b. the mill...
...clarification. The Senate passed a compromise version of a bill introduced last summer by Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, June 13), and sent it to the President. If Harry Truman signed it, the bill would, in effect, reverse the Supreme Court's cement decision. It would permit freight absorption, provided that prices 1) are independently arrived at and 2) do not eliminate competition. More important, the bill would take business off the defensive. Where the burden of proof now lies on business to show its innocence of any collusion, the new bill would...