Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further into formations resembling a caterpillar unfolding its legs, a zipper-fastener opening & closing. On dry land they conduct their usual gyrations on a flat stage, on glittering pedestals and in a cafe where Ruby Keeler, in Chinese makeup, does a tap dance on a bar. Although the cinema code has not yet been signed, Hollywood productions, wherever possible, contain compliments for the NRA. In Footlight Parade, a line of marching soldiers fades irrelevantly into a U. S. flag. The flag fades into a portrait study of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sailors then assemble themselves in the shape...
...ordinary hearing was that on the aluminum code in Washington last week. The code was to include a basic industry which consists of a single corporation. There are manufacturers of aluminum pots, pans, propellers, but only one U. S. producer of virgin aluminum-Aluminum Company of America, dominated by Andrew William Mellon & Family. The hearing soon settled down to a clean-cut fight between the independent fabricators, who must not only buy from Alcoa all their aluminum (except scrap) but also market their wares in competition with Alcoa, which is by far the biggest fabricator. The independents objected to three...
...That the code was to be administered by the Association, at whose council tables Alcoa's voice is loudest, instead of by a government administrator...
...That the code's clause banning sales below cost contained no provision that Alcoa must figure its costs of fabricated wares on the price it charges for raw aluminum. If Alcoa based the price of its fabricated products on the price it charges itself for raw aluminum, the independents claimed that Alcoa could undersell them at all times...
...That there was only one code. The independents wanted one for themselves, another for Alcoa...