Word: competitione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flexibility. The present law permits the President, on recommendations by the Tariff Commission, to raise or lower tariff rates 50%. Based on the difference in the cost of producing an article abroad and in the U. S. the rate change is supposed to equalize competition.
In their competitive plans they are not without competition from others. On the east coast there are the long and well fixed Condor Air Lines and the Campagnie Generate Aeropostale. Condor is German-owned, a subsidiary of the German-subsidized Luft Hansa, strongest aviation concern of Middle Europe if not...
Along the west coast competition is zero for Pan-American, stupendous for anyone else. Manhattan's Joseph Peter Grace and William Russell Grace, brothers, are the commercial tsars. They control ships (Grace Line), trading companies (chiefly for heavy machinery), banks. Peruvians respect and follow their courteously covered commands. Other west...
Displeased at the Commission's order, at the company's formation, was many a news organ. Representatives of the Gannett chainpapers attended the organization meetings at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, later declined to participate. "Such a company will not give the service we want," said one of them. Moved...
¶In Australia, it was being insisted that U. S. talking cinema producers should give Raycophone, Australian talking mechanism fair play in competition with U. S.-made talking mechanisms.