Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious a business to look at as though it was made work ... I would like to tell you a story that happened to me . . . down in Washington. A group of people came in like you, from a distress area, so-called labor-surplus area . . . One of them made a complaint-that was a little over a year ago-and he said, "You have just reduced the draft in our district. There are no more young men that won't have to go to Korea and fight and that will add to our unemployment." And that idea that...
...nation that loves its coffee was treated last week to one of the muddiest cups yet brewed. The Federal Trade Commission filed a formal complaint against the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and eight of its members. The charge: restraining coffee trading and thereby causing prices to rise out of all proportion to supply and demand. As it had before (TIME, Aug. 9), FTC hit hard at the exchange's "restrictive" contract, which permits trading only in "Santos 4" coffee, an average grade shipped from Brazil's port of Santos and accounting for 10% of U.S. consumption...
What's Wrong? But when FTC's vague complaint was combed for specific charges of wrongdoing by the exchange, even commodity experts wondered just what coffee-men had done wrong. If FTC hoped to prove that coffee traders had rigged prices last winter by sale of far-futures contracts, i.e., contracts made between November 1952 and October 1953 for coffee to be delivered a year later (see chart), it had only to look at the figures to see that there was no correlation. If FTC hoped to prove that current far-future prices, i.e., on contracts sold between...
Standard of Value. Coffee Exchange President Gustavo Lobo Jr. said that FTC's complaint about coffee was made on "flimsy grounds," and put the blame on the July 1953 frost that threatened a coffee shortage and touched off a wild rise in prices. Lobo explained that Santos 4 coffee is the basis for trading because it "is the most popular coffee, the . . . standard of value." But the exchange does trade in other grades, said he (in all, about 40% of U.S. coffee). Actually, prices are set not by the exchange alone. Such big roasters as A. & P., General Foods...
Perhaps the main complaint to be leveled at the Workshop's first production is the general dreariness of the selections, although both The Purification and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion contain excellent moments. If Williams is hard to take in such large doses, however, the Workshop has demonstrated its ability to handle difficult material. The three plays, which will receive their final two performances today, are a promising start...