Word: marche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been restored and garnished with a further 7½% rise. Now, as the A. A. R. last week pointed out, the railroad situation is even worse than in 1932. In January 1938 the railroad operating net was 32% under January 1932. Last week the first 37 roads to report March earnings showed an aggregate decrease of 80% from last year. First quarter earnings reports indicated staggering losses in almost every case. Samples...
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...officially listed a Progressive, member of the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, he is the father of a resolution to investigate the automotive industry. This was inspired in March 1937 by the predominantly Progressive Wisconsin Legislature, as a result of a State licensing law for automobile dealers which brought out the fact that certain features of the dealer business were interstate in character and therefore outside State regulation. Gardner Withrow's proposal was that the Federal Trade Commission investigate monopolistic features of the relations between automobile manufacturers and dealers. Congress passed the resolution last month and Franklin Roosevelt...
This convention, attended by 850 dealers, was for the primary purpose of drawing up a fair trade practice code for submission to the FTC for approval and promulgation. FTCommissioner Charles H. March was on hand to help. But his place in the sun was definitely overshadowed by Gardner Withrow. With the FTC scheduled to begin its investigation of automobile monopoly five days after the N. A. D. A. convention ended, stocky, heavy-jawed Sponsor Withrow appeared in Detroit to explain it. What he had to say was the most vigorous tongue-lashing the automotive industry has had from a Congressman...
...March, latest month for which trade figures are available, U. S. merchandise exports exceeded imports by $102,306,000. In March 1937 the reverse was true to the extent of $59,909,000. Changes wrought by drought, war and depression showed most clearly in specific cases...