Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome," promised the governor of Kwantung Province. "Even those who have been spies are not excluded, so long as they don't carry out their activities this time." By last week, as the fair drew to a close, some 20,000 had jumped at the offer...
...chief aims of President Pedro Aramburu and the officers around him-as mirrored by their own words and deeds-took firm shape last week. They intend to wipe out the cult of Juan Peron, free the economy from strangling Peronist controls and then run off fair elections. The week saw dramatic steps toward all three ends...
...Committee. The story was so good that Ed Lahey became the News's labor authority. "Anyone who goes out on a labor story and doesn't fall flat on his face," says Lahey deprecatingly, "becomes, quote a labor expert, unquote." Nevertheless, Expert Lahey combined human interest and fair-minded interpretation to such good effect in covering the 1937 steel and auto sitdown strikes that he was assigned to top labor stories throughout the U.S., became a close friend of union leaders...
Defeat after defeat in the U.S. marketplace and in the courts rocked fair-trade pricing during the last year. Last week, fair-trade's retreat seemed about to turn into a rout...
Another blow came from the Michigan Supreme Court. It reaffirmed an earlier ruling that a state fair-trade law could be enforced only against those retailers who had signed fair-trade agreements,* thus touched off a wave of defections. Toastmaster division of McGraw Electric Co., a longtime staunch defender of price fixing, discontinued enforcement in Michigan, thus chose the course taken there by General Electric weeks earlier. By week's end Sunbeam Corp., which had never willingly permitted its products to be discounted, joined the surrender and canceled all its fair-trade contracts with Michigan retailers. The State Supreme...