Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Test case of the constitutionality of New York's Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act of 1935 was Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers, v. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). No facts were disputed. Macy's admitted selling books at prices lower than those agreed upon between Doubleday, Doran and its retail affiliate. New York Supreme Court Justice Frederick P. Close decided Macy's could sell books at whatever price it chose, declared the Feld-Crawford Act unconstitutional (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). Opined he: "The act attempts to give to private persons unlimited...
...case of Bourjois Sales Corp. (cosmetics) v. Druggist Abraham Dorfman, the Court reversed itself, declared the Feld-Crawford Act constitutional. Ignored altogether in the 600-word opinion was Brooklyn Druggist Dorfman's act of selling Bourjois products at prices lower than those stipulated in Bourjois contracts with Druggist Dorfman's competitors and 4,000 other New York State retailers...
Then smart entrepreneurs started building refineries in the tropics, shipping the finished product instead. The tariff on raw and refined was approximately the same, while labor and taxes were lower than in the U. S. By 1934 these tropical refiners were supplying nearly one-tenth of the 6,000,000-odd tons oi sugar annually consumed...
...Sears prevents that by making his patients chew like cows and sheep. He makes the surface of false bicuspids and molars practically flat, sets the bicuspids and first molars a little higher in their cases than the other false teeth, and a trifle offset. This compels the lower jaw to move straight up and down against the upper jaw, instead of in the natural scissors movement. The extra height of the middle teeth prevents Dr. Sears's patients from shutting their jaws completely. Only way to do that and to bite into food is to thrust out the lower...
...singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate roles with brilliance and spirit. Johnson wanted to extend her term so she could be Donna Anna in a revival of Mozart's Don Giovanni. La Scala, where she was scheduled to sing this month, would not release...