Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink. The Affair of the Toilet Kits in June 1933 concerned a persuasive salesman who got Louis Howe to get Robert Fechner to pay an outrageous price for 200,000 handybags. Although Franklin Roosevelt himself had casually endorsed the salesman, loyal Mr. Fechner took the blows from Congress. That body in 1937 repaid him by cutting his $12,000 salary to $10,000. (Mrs. Norton's bill would restore...
...What Price America (Sat. 5 p. m. CBS), first of 26 CBS-Department of Interior dramatizations of Government reclamation of natural resources...
...effect the order did C. I. O. two great favors: 1) guarded against wage slashes which might otherwise follow the wholesale price cuts precipitated last year by unionized U, S. Steel; 2) turned competitive heat upon non-union Little Steel companies, wiping out some of their economic reasons for refusing to sign with...
...view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people indeed." His greatest regret: that the price of The Criterion barred it ''to most of the readers who are qualified to appreciate what is good in it, and to criticise what is faulty...
British tea tycoons are nonetheless unhappy. When depression brought a worldwide price war, they formed a Tea Marketing Bureau which stabilized the trade until the Government began slapping on increasing duties. This brought an immediate 5% decline in British consumption, though it remains the highest in the world-over five cups a day per person. Then, from the Orient came the most serious threat since China closed her ports 100 years...