Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general maximum working week. Allowing for appropriate qualifications and general classifications by administrative action, it should also be possible to put some floor below which the wage ought not to fall. There should be no difficulty in ruling out the products of the labor of children from any fair market. And there should also be little dispute when it comes to ruling out of the interstate markets products of employers who deny to their workers the right of self-organization and collective bargaining, whether through the fear of labor spies, the bait of company unions, or the use of strikebreakers...
Originally known as Dawson's Trading Post, the supermarket developed a $2,500,000 annual business but brought no returns to the Brothers Bristol. Founder Dawson was ousted last year, some $800 was spent obliterating his name from the market, and a young merchandising expert from Marshall Field & Co. named Harper Sowles was installed as president...
Already Missouri has passed an "antidiscriminatory" bill favored by local brewers (but not by U. S. distillers) seeking protection for their home market, which in effect bars from Missouri the alcoholic produce of 30 other States.* Pending in Connecticut, Illinois, Rhode Island and Wisconsin Legislatures are similar bills. Iowa and Nebraska rejected them...
...been different. One of 17 States which has a monopoly on the sale of liquor, the Commonwealth's Legislature a year ago levied a 4% relief tax on distillers without allowing them to pass the boost on to consumers at 550 State stores. Valuing the big Pennsylvania market, distillers fell in line. All was well until last November when representatives of the other monopoly States met in Chicago, demanded that either Pennsylvania raise prices 4% or that distillers cut prices to other monopoly States 4%. Pennsylvania refused, chiefly because of the 10% consumer sales tax on liquor...
...same day to buy it from Guaranty Co., which had just bought it from Guaranty Trust Co., which had in turn made the actual purchase from the estate of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan. Total price to C. & O. was $8,000,000, some $2,000,000 above the market value of the stock...