Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Provided that the President cannot overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back him up;
In 1956, when Goldfine's East Boston Co. got in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Senator Cotton called the SEC's general counsel into the office of New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges to put in a good word for Goldfine. Also present: Goldfine's old...
For the first time in years, reported the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe, Western Europe's production is "leveling off." Machines are slowing down, using less oil and coal, digesting fewer raw materials, spewing out fewer finished products, and making smaller profits. Only highly protected France seems...
"For the first time in 17 or 18 months, crude-oil stocks above ground are pretty much what they ought to be." So last week said Ernest O. Thompson, senior member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls 45% of U.S. output. Texas oilmen freely predicted that their monthly production...
Businessmen are often confused by the contradictory actions of the U.S. trustbusters. Last week they had even more reason for confusion. The Federal Trade Commission ruled last month that a merger would not tend automatically to create a monopoly even though it gave 45.6% of the household steel-wool market...