Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes of such concentration and control and their effect upon competition...
...more or less open national markets exist. Men's and boys' suits, made under widely varying conditions in different parts of the country, have no easily determined market price. If the Government undertook to stabilize the clothing industry, it would have on its hands a production-&-price control problem beside which reducing next year's wheat acreage would be child's play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles...
...Harry Moore, $50,000 to help re-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week their knock was answered. Governor Moore appointed 25-year-old Mrs. Cromwell, who made a tour of southern resettlement projects last year with Mrs. Roosevelt, to be a member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise the State's 21 penal institutions, hospitals and State homes. In prospect for briskly confident Mr. Cromwell, who told a Congressional committee last year that all income, gift, estate and corporation taxes should be repealed in favor of a manufacturers' sales...
...only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
...will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held up his sleeve for 13 poverty-stricken years as dishwasher, wine steward and hack writer. While the rest of the Waterman family sat around in speechless amazement, he not only returned but took undisputed control of the $4,500,000 (estimated) Waterman business...