Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fireside chat last month, the President called for the "early enactment" of laws to 1) control crop surpluses, 2) regulate wages and hours in industry, 3) reorganize the executive branch of the Government, 4) permit regional planning for better use of national resources, 5) modernize anti-trust legislation. In his message this week, he again enumerated the first four, omitted the last...
...pastime for his wealthy friends, and two years before eight teams of moneyed Easterners got together and formed the U. S. Polo Association. Some of the best of the association's 86 member clubs are in the West, but until this year the East has had complete control of U. S. polo. When Robert Early Strawbridge Jr., a seven-goal player, son of the vice president of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier department store, became chairman of the Polo Association two years ago, he noted that the handicapping job was growing too big for Eastern riding breeches. Forthwith...
...would "suspend operations" and abandon the country rather than pay it. It was at that point that President Cárdenas, who has plenty of resolute and resourceful Indian blood in his veins, called in representatives of Mexican Eagle Oil Co., affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell which already controls 60% of Mexican oil production. He handed them an agreement promising them full control of the Poza Rica field, 7,700 of whose 13,000 proven acres Eagle already holds. In return Eagle agreed to give Mexico 15% to 35% of the petroleum it produced, varying with type and amount...
From the British point of view the concession is like money from home. It gives Great Britain a huge oil reserve which can be reached without passing through the Mediterranean, where she no longer has undisputed control. From the U. S. point of view the move looked like an astute means of splitting the unified stand of the foreign oil companies on the wage question...
...face of the Supreme Court. So-called "yardstick" rates were to be based on the Government's "prudent investment." But the powermen soon found that the Government held down the original cost by the simple expedient of writing off large chunks to such things as flood control or navigation improvement. In the opinion of powermen, who must pay interest on the entire cost of their dams and plants, these write-offs made the yardstick something under 36 inches in length. The President's suggestion was to bring the two yardsticks in line-by cutting a few inches...