Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colorless, reticent onetime drug clerk, Dr. Moyer was snatched from an undistinguished career as a clinical pathologist to guard Pittsburgh's health. Around him last week swirled the same charges of suppression which were piled on Chicago's Health President Bundesen after he made his long-delayed announcement of the amebic dysentery epidemic last autumn. It seemed evident that Pittsburgh's Health Department had suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then...
...Code. Last week in a 70-page report the Commission said that the Steel Code did indeed foster monopoly. It struck at the domination of the Code Authority by a handful of big producers, flayed the price-fixing provisions. Particularly obnoxious to the Commission was restoration of the ancient "Pittsburgh plus'' method of price quotation. Banned by the Commission in 1924, this ingenious device forces a steelmaker to add to his delivered price freight charges from Pittsburgh or some other basing point, even if both buyer & seller are next door neighbors...
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