Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most significant cases now before FTC are two big anti-trust actions against the cement industry and the window glass makers, and four Robinson-Patman Act cases, notably those involving Standard Brands and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. FTC's first Robinson-Patman Act cases were closed this week. Dismissed were the complaints filed against Kraft-Phenix Cheese and Bird & Son. Inc. (TIME, Oct. 12). In the Kraft case FTC held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less...
Ambassador Dodd's letter to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others voiced his alarm about a U. S. billionaire fascist (still unidentified). TIME reported Senator Borah's description of it as "the figment of a disturbed mind...
...little reason for him to admit a general defeat. "Little Steel" was only one sector of the steel front; he still had the majority of the industry in his pocket. Moreover, steel is only one of C.I.O.'s many fronts. In other mass-production industries like oil, glass, rubber, motor, mining, there have been no serious setbacks. C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union has been sweeping the field among Manhattan's taxi-drivers and subway and bus employes. Its office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining elections...
...taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect to give the child eyelashes and blinkable lids by fastening pieces of her eyebrows to the edges of her present, imperfect lids. Next and last step will be the insertion of a little glass eye with a blue iris...
...little confirmation of the notion that temperamentally the Japanese are suited to the English, the Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson...