Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Squabble between publishers and General Johnson is typical of the current reaction against the National Recovery Act. There is, it seems, a section of the permanent code which allows the president to license certain industries if "destructive wage or price cutting or other activities contrary to the policy of" NIRA should exist in them. Newspapers, sensing here a possible threat to journalistic freedom, demand that this offending fragment be struck out or amended in some way before their individual code is signed...
...Federal law deals with displaying the U. S. flag, but the U. S. War Department has publicized the societies' code of 1923. In this the U. S. Navy practice is not mentioned. During the War many a church adopted the Navy pennant, for use indoors alongside the U. S. flag. Because few churches hoisted pennants outdoors the question of propriety bothered no one until last week. Then the Navy Department was asked for an opinion. It shied away, saying that it could make no ruling about inland churches. While the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert went...
...Iron & Steel Institute (which under its new NRA code had just begun to make official weekly reports on steel operations) slapped John Stockholder square on his grin with the announcement that steel operations were at 26.1% of capacity, not anywhere near the 59% high of the third quarter...
...identical price . . . and that this price is the odd figure of $37.75) point unmistakably to the con clusion that these letters were the result of consultation and collusion. ... It seems clear that these are noncompetitive prices lacking the safeguard to the consumer which competition provides. Manifestly . . . the [steel] code was not intended to eliminate competition. On the contrary, it is by its own terms a 'Code of Fair Competition...
...Under the oil code Texas and Oklahoma last week whittled down their production quotas and Secretary Ickes, hopeful of maintaining the basic Midcontinent price of $1.11 a barrel for crude oil (set three weeks ago), warned producers against cheating under express threat of exercising his "drastic powers." Meanwhile Nature, with a more powerful threat, endangered again the best laid plans of oilmen for keeping down production: in Anderson County, Tex., gushed the discovery well of a new oil field...