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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What helped the price war along was the action of Nylonmaker E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in canceling minimum wholesale prices on the hose. Warned by recent U. S. Supreme Court rulings against Ethyl Gasoline Corp. and against twelve oil companies for fixing prices, Du Pont went further. The company waived all labeling requirements and announced that from now on any stocking maker could buy nylon yarn without a license...
Legend has it that Eastman paid Baekeland $1,000,000, several times the minimum sum on which the young inventor had set his mind. At all events, he found himself, at 35, rich enough to do what he pleased. He converted a stable in his back yard into a laboratory. He found that phenol (carbolic acid) and formaldehyde interacted to make a non-melting, non-dissolving solid like nothing in nature. This was Bakelite, foundation stone of the synthetic plastic industry. After forming General Bakelite Co. (later Bakelite Corp.) to exploit his discovery, Baekeland methodically listed 43 industries in which...
rating, will fluctuate with his audience. He will get a minimum of $10,000 per week for his whole show, will receive some $200 for each point he can add over a base rating of 20, equal to a $40,000 bonus if he averages 25 points or more for the 39 weeks of the season...
Simple as ABC is the technique of the act: that a soft-coal producer must subscribe to the code and its minimum prices or pay an admittedly ruinous tax of 19½% on the sale price of every ton. Complicated as relativity is its minimum price structure. For each producer ships between five and 20 classes of coal to from one to 100 marketing points. In the Gray-Fortas schedules there is a minimum price for every kind of coal at every shipping point, shaded one way for water transportation, another for rail. In its eight-month survey...
From Chicago to Los Angeles and Fort Worth to Seattle, the new service's rates are the same: a basic 8?-a-mile with a 10-mile-per-hour minimum, a sliding scale for rising mileage with an ultimate 6½?-a-mile for a minimum 1,000 miles a week, gas, oil, maintenance, and insurance included. Cars: five-passenger Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Studebaker and Hudson sedans. Telegrams to reserve cars are free, and arrangements can be made to charge automobile rentals against credit cards...