Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respite under NRA it has been the normal condition of coal since 1923. After NRA came the Guffey Coal Act (also found unconstitutional) and finally last spring the Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code authority (minus jurisdiction over labor practices), had as its first big job to fix minimum coal prices. Last week it gave birth to its first set of minima, to the outspoken approval of almost all coal men, the bitter disapproval of coal's best customers-industry and railroads...
...price areas. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (covering Iowa and all the U. S. east of the Mississippi), which produce 80% of all U. S. soft coal, are those affected by last week's price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according to production costs. Sizes include lump, egg, pea, nut, run-of-mine, industrial slack and stoker. Qualities range from "A" through "G" or further, depending on sulfur and ash content...
...enforce its minimum, B. C. C. signs up producers to a code whereby each agrees to pay 1? per ton excise tax. Any producer who refuses to sign the code must pay a prohibitive tax of 19½% on his gross sales. So far 6,108 of the 6,315 U. S. bituminous mines have signed up, for coal producers, desperate after their many lean years, are nearly unanimous in favor of price fixing...
...when he suddenly invited two dozen leading foodmen to a get-acquainted dinner. And he found, as he had suspected, that few knew one another even by sight. From this group was drawn the Food Industries Advisory Board, which collaborated with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Food Code. All this activity put Mr. Chester in the spotlight; and in 1935 Mr. Chester got a telephone call from the N.A.M. president, asking him to serve as an N.A.M. director. Some of his General Foods directors had personal doubts about the publicity value of the position but they nevertheless gave...
...tables which are almost indispensable to engineers engaged in steam engineering work. During the world war he was associated with the National Research Council and was head of the section which had charge of new developments in airplane engines. At present he is engaged in revising the standard test code of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers dealing with centrifugal and axial-flow fans...