Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision that rate changes may not be made without the consent of the consumer if the supplying company is under contract to the consumer. It brushed aside United's argument that its contract in the disputed case had stated that "All gas shall be paid for under the seller's rate schedule, or any effective superseding rate schedules on file with the FPC." The appeals court decision means that any superseding schedules, i.e., higher rates not objected to by the FPC, may be upset by a customer's objection. In jeopardy is about $300 million in recent...
...wall of the men's room in a day coach. Manufacture: by a derelict chemist in a well-equipped laboratory in the cellar of a shabby frame house in a rundown suburb. Distribution: by courier to retail outlets, by an infinite variety of special arrangements between buyer and seller. Protection: by hired thugs-a small outfit by U.S. standards, but what they lack in numbers they make up in enthusiasm...
ANTITRUST BATTLE is boiling up over Procter & Gamble's $30 million purchase of Clorox Chemical Co., biggest U.S. seller of household liquid bleach. Federal Trade Commission says that purchase gives P. & G. 48% of liquid-bleach market (v. 16% for nearest competitor), charges that combination of two companies may "substantially lessen competition" or "tend to create a monopoly" in home-laundry business...
...Pencil-seller and suicide...
Whether or not cigarette smoking is detrimental to health, the very fact that there" is a doubt about it should be convincing enough that the habit does no one any good -except the manufacturer and seller of cigarettes. I dare say that every cigarette smoker would gladly give up the habit if he thought that he would not miss smoking and be unhappy about it. The fact is. as in my own case, a sense of pride comes with the fact that I possessed guts and gumption enough to give up the habit...