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...tips" of $500 to Robert Kearney and others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from $300 to $480 above list price for Hudsons at Washington's New York Avenue Motor Co. Others testified that they had traded in cars to dealers who promptly resold them for $300 to $700 profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Under the Counter | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...super house detective, with broad authority to pry into all ECA activities both at home & abroad. Besides the routine task of keeping expenditures in line with appropriations, his investigators will follow through on ECA shipments, make sure they are not diverted to Europe's black markets or resold to Russian satellites. Reports on his continuous "internal audit" will go directly to Administrator Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Super Detective | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...received 4,000 tons at $39 a ton and resold them. At current prices of $75 a ton, this has brought an estimated profit of $140,000. She is scheduled to get 10% of Lone Star's monthly production (current output: about 20,000 tons a month) until her order is filled. She didn't think she would make as much as Germany estimated. But, said she, "I certainly hope to make a lot of money. That's the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: How to Make a Buck | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Bazelon got the FBI to investigate. Its agents marked outgoing rayon by a secret process, and traced it through the grey market. The FBI estimated that 10-15% of North American and Bemberg's output was being resold at prices up to $4 a pound, four times the factory price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIEN PROPERTY: Big Stick | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Waving requisition slips, the agents moved into the slaughterhouses. Angry butchers spat out the question: "Qu'est-ce que c'est, cette fois?" ("Now what?"). In a few minutes the entire day's stock of meat at La Villette had been bought by the government and resold to the butchers at officially fixed prices. All day agents of the Contrôle Economique moved about Paris, to see that the newly pegged meat prices were respected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ready for Battle | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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