Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents were chiselers, did not claim that NRA was responsible for all recovery to date. And in opening his remarks he even put in a word of understanding for the newspaper publishers who battled him tooth and claw to get freedom of the Press written into their code. Said the NRAdministrator...
...long while I thought sincerely that the newspaper insistence on writing into their code a clause saving their constitutional rights was pure surplusage...
Grand Rapids' most famed furniture man, Robert W. Irwin, chairman of the Furniture Code Authority and president of Robert W. Irwin Co., had no exhibits at the Chicago Mart. Buyers could roam its 16 floors without seeing a single stick of Grand Rapids furniture. Grand Rapids held a show of its own last week sponsored by an association of which Mr. Irwin was president for ten years. In recent years Chicago has surpassed Grand Rapids as a distributing centre and manufacturer of upholstered furniture...
...retailers in a single year (1932). The manufacturing industry managed to right itself last year, has been running on a fairly even price keel since last summer when business booked by wholesalers increased 100% over 1932, and prices on some lines went up as much as 60%. The Furniture Code, which went into effect last December, helped stabilize prices by forbidding sales below cost. But the boom of last summer and autumn has died away, and the seasonal upswing stimulated by June weddings has been weaker this year than last. A tremor ran through the industry fortnight ago on reports...
...Kuhn. Loeb & Co. for public offering a $50,000,000 4½% bond issue, maturing in 1984. Proceeds are to be used for "proper corporate purposes." Like all railroad securities the issue was exempt from the Securities Act, though its underwriters were subject to the equally drastic Investment Bankers Code. The prospectus issued by Kuhn, Loeb contained Pennsylvania Railroad's condensed income statement for ten years and a letter from President William Wallace Atterbury reporting that the railroad is not indebted to RFC or the Railroad Credit Corp., has no outstanding bank loans. Kuhn. Loeb purchased the bonds...