Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven per day, raised wages. The Appalachian coal operators, in whose mines the United Mine workers are strongest, were prompt to accept the agreement. The operators of the South and Southwest, who in years past have worsted the United Mine Workers, stood out against the change, maintained that higher freight rates from their mines necessitated lower wages. The Alabama operators even went so far as to shut down their mines to obtain a temporary injunction against the new NRA regulation on the grounds that General Johnson's amendments were "discriminatory and confiscatory." Last week NRA held hearings in Washington...
...unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department to trace passport frauds, in the Interior Department to detect crimes committed on Indian reservations, in the Interstate Commerce Commission to nab freight rate rebaters and in the Federal Trade Commission to prevent unfair trade practices...
...frequently and happily from the omnipresent newsreels, more frequently but less happily from plate photographers. Rivers and dams, airviewed and minuscule, announce the Tennessee Valley Administration; nine scenes in Russia herald its recognition. Good shots: Assassin Zangara looking pleased with the headlines; a laughing lynch-crowd in California; empty freight-cars in a yard. Grisly shot: the naked, charred body of Negro Warner, lynched & burned near St. Joseph...
Bottling and casing $ 4.00 Kentucky State tax 1.50 State, county and local taxes .30 Federal stock dividend tax 2.25 Federal whiskey tax 6.00 Storage 2.40 New York Stale tax 3.00 Freight anil handling .91 Delivery .25 Total...
...Code Authority by a handful of big producers, flayed the price-fixing provisions. Particularly obnoxious to the Commission was restoration of the ancient "Pittsburgh plus'' method of price quotation. Banned by the Commission in 1924, this ingenious device forces a steelmaker to add to his delivered price freight charges from Pittsburgh or some other basing point, even if both buyer & seller are next door neighbors...