Word: hampering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy has about 250,000 factories, of which less than 10% employ 10 or more persons each. Few good highways, little mineral resources and especially a paucity of coal mines hamper the factories. They must import almost all their raw materials. Expensive materials and frail employes explain why textiles constitute the chief manufactured products of Italy, why food products come next, why steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores...
Since the miners struck, operators have remanned their mines with non-union labor. To prevent the union men from interfering, the operators have obtained court injunctions against them, chiefly on the ground that to interfere with coal-mining is to hamper interstate trade. These injunctions have been detailed and drastic and in Pennsylvania, to back them up, the operators have obtained special state-appointed policemen, whose salaries the operators pay. Vice President Murray's report dwelt at length on the technique of these special policemen, whom he styled "gun-men," "thugs." Coalminers are not a fragile, thin-skinned...
...property and kept the milkman, the grocer, even the doctor from visiting its unwelcome tenants without its express permission. Then the company obtained from Judge F. P. Schoonmaker of the U. S. District Court an injunction for the union men's eviction, on the ground that they were hampering the company's business, part of which is the interstate shipment of coal. To hamper interstate trade, said the company, is to violate the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Judge Schoonmaker agreed and wrote into the injunction a number of other prohibitions wanted by the company, against the unionists throwing...
...stamp and in going before the public at the 1928 presidential election with lowered taxes as one of the campaign cries. But so evenly is Congress divided, and so unreliable (as party men) are several Republicans in the upper house, that Democrats can at least hamper the passage of a Republican tax bill, even if they may not be abb to pass one of their own. Political prophets look forward to a long-financial wrangle when Congress meets again...
...South American businessmen should encourage their governments in promoting wise laws which will furnish a stable basis for the investment of large Sums of capital, which will prevent monopoly or exclusive privilege, but which will not hamper the development of trade. They must realize that in largely undeveloped countries capital must be employed in large units...