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...ranging from defamation of competitors to tampering with speedometers. Only major point the dealers refused to concede was the price-fixing of trade-in values. This FTC is eager to forbid and may still do, but the dealers maintained that this stabilization of trade-ins was all that prevented ruinous price-wars...
...tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands would be ruinous . . . to the industry as a whole." Replied alert Agent Selznick: "I confess-indeed, I am proud-that I have substantially increased the salaries of my clients. That is precisely what I am paid...
...fellow members how economies can be made. His Nashville Banner has long been published each evening and Sunday. But lately it has been losing advertising to the Tennessean-in receivership for four years before Silliman Evans bought it last March-published each morning, evening and Sunday. To end a ruinous circulation and advertising fight between their rival papers, Mr. Evans, also chairman of Maryland Casualty Co., and Mr. Stahlman have formed Newspaper Printing Corp. which will solicit advertising, print and distribute both papers from a new $150,000 building. Each paper owns half the stock in the operating company...
...line was so prosperous that it declared 6% dividends every month for ten months. Ruinous rate wars broke out among competing companies, however, and the fare to Boston was once as low as $1, to Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than...
...North Canaan lime company, faced by ruinous competition from ten other lime companies in northwestern Connecticut and southwestern Massachucetts, also came into Roraback's hands...