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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...window full of diamonds compares to a coal bin: only about 350 screenwriters function at any time; their wages are $150 to $5,000 a week. But they enjoy labor troubles in proportion to their pay. The National Labor Relations Board last week had to hold an election to find out which of two major screenwriting labor organizations, that for two years had bickered with each other, shall henceforth undertake the eternal bickering that goes on between screenwriters and producers...
...Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body...
...fair-trade laws, by a jungle of anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through a marketing laws survey, since estimated to require two years and $2,000,000. Last week it set about establishing offices in 200 cities from which to interview businessmen and consumers, spy on prices in their native haunts...
...work will have two aims. A legal division will for the first time summarize in one book all State and Federal antitrust laws, fair-trade laws, laws on advertising, on trademarks, on chain stores, on co-operative marketing. An economic division will try to find what effects these laws have upon consumer costs, distribution, chain-store growth, etc. In charge is lean Augustus Heath Martin Jr., who was successively sales-promotion and wholesale manager for Chrysler and Willys-Overland and southeastern manager for Union Bag & Paper Corp., joined the Administration as coordinator for the National Bituminous Coal Commission. He first...
...reorganized Exchange this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some 200 "big names," the board of governors came to the conclusion that it could find no better symbol of a new stockmarket era than young Bill Martin. At their pleasure, he will hold the job indefinitely. Salary: $48,000 a year...