Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play tells of Denmark Vesey (Juano Hernandez), a slave who earned his freedom and conspired to set his people free. Secretly gaining thousands of followers, he particularly sought out an influential head slave named George Wilson (Canada Lee), who was torn between his race and a kind master. In a nightmare of conflicting loyalties, George blurted out the plot and betrayed his people...
Time was when any U.S. merchant was free to sell anything in the house at any price he set. But now, for a steadily growing list of "brand-name" products, such free competition is forbidden by law in 45 U.S. states. In addition to radio & television sets, the list includes drugs, books, jewelry, liquor, sporting goods, kitchenware, cigars, cosmetics, electric appliances...
...Rate. This hobbling of free competition began with retail druggists, who feared that cut-rate chains would put them out of business. In 1931, they rammed the first effective fair-trade act through the California legislature; it gave manufacturers and retailers the power to fix the resale price of commodities bearing a trademark. Later, the National Association of Retail Druggists lobbied the same law through other state legislatures. Fearing a clash with federal antitrust laws, the druggists in 1937 drummed the Miller-Tydings Act through Congress. It enabled many others besides druggists to fix prices...
...same period was $9,488,336 (v. a $131,478 loss in the 1947 period). Kaiser-Frazer turned in $8,253,451 after deducting $5,900,000 in taxes (v. $6,089,000 in the 1947 period, when no taxes were paid. K-F's earnings were tax-free because of a carry-back). But K-F's third-quarter net of $2,058,000 was almost 74% below tax-free 1947-Divorce. A federal district court approved Howard Hughes's proposal to split RKO's picture-making organization from its theaters, create two separate companies...
...event. It is serious not so much because of the injuries it caused but rather because it is a violent attack on the rights of a political minority. It is our opinion that such attacks--and they have been many in recent months--are a grave threat to the free institutions of American democracy. We believe that these attacks should be attributed to the current well-planned campaign of hysteria aimed at all progressives, and not primarily to the misled individuals who in many cases carry them out. This hysteria has certainly been heightened by the indictment of the twelve...