Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agricultural Adjustment Administrator Peek, who is responsible for the Food & Grocery Wholesale & Retail Trades Code, was also alarmed. Retail price-fixing would make it more difficult for him to bring farm prices up to parity with manufactured goods. Though the Food Code went into hearings last week with a price-fixing clause-a 10% mark-up like the Retail Code but split 2?% to the wholesaler and 7?% to the retailer-few observers believed that it would get by Mr. Peek...
Thus it appeared that the retail and drug codes would go to President Roosevelt with the price-fixing sections intact, but Washington believed that he would await the findings of A. A. A.'s Peek on the Food Code before he made them the law of the land. Meanwhile NRA rushed to nearly every U. S. industry and to all magazines and newspapers, sample advertising copy to start its consumer campaign with the slogan: NOW IS THE TIME...
Died. Frank William Peek Jr., 51, chief engineer of General Electric Co.'s Pittsfield, Mass, plant, pioneer developer of artificial lightning which he used to gauge the effect of real lightning on power lines; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; near Gascones, Canada...
President Wilson's War Industries Board brought to Washington two men destined to play a large part in General Johnson's later life. One was the board's chairman, Mr. Baruch. The other was George Nelson Peek of Moline, Ill., who had spent 25 years with plow-making concerns in the Midwest. Meeting for the first time under Wartime pressure, this trio found that they all thought and acted pretty much alike about their joint problems. Each spoke his mind bluntly. Each dug hard for facts. Each could put his theories into practice. A three-cornered friendship...
...over, Mr. Baruch returned to Manhattan and Wall Street as the simon-pure capitalist who put his millions out to work for him and make more millions but took no regular business job. Mr. Peek induced General Johnson to resign from the Army in 1919, accompany him to Moline. There as president and vice president they took over Moline Plow Co., set out with high hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were...