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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TOUGHER CONTRACTS are in store for Navy planemakers because of troubles with planes ordered during the Korean war. The Navy canceled more than $1 billion in contracts between 1950-54 because the planes failed to live up to specifications; it now threatens to pay less for sloppy workmanship and write actual cash penalties into new contracts...
...that a 1951 Neilsen survey shows that drugstore prices are actually lower, on the whole, in Fair Trade states.) Says Sunbeam Corp., one of the biggest backers of minimum prices: "Without Fair Trade, the distribution of national brand merchandise is monopolized by a handful of the most powerful department stores and discount houses . . . This automatically eliminates the small store and limits outlets." Sunbeam says that 20 discount houses in 1953 took over 80% of Sunbeam sales in price-free District of Columbia and 600 small distributors dropped Sunbeam products. As a result, sales in the District were down 15%, although...
...disadvantages. Several businessmen testified that when the Star Co. found their ads in local weeklies or magazines, they were warned by the ad department: "So long as you can get space elsewhere, you don't need it in the Star." One owner of a small clothing store said he was told by the Star that if he continued advertising in Topeka's Capper's Weekly (owned by the late Senator Arthur Capper), his position in the Star would get "worse than ever." He testified that he found his ads buried on the Star's back pages...
...back of society's hand again on his first day in school in a Czech mining town, when the class brutally shuns him as a new boy. Lonely, arrogant. Stern curls up with Das Kapital. When his father begs him to take an interest in the family department store, Stern tonguelashes him about the exploitation of the workers. After that, the moves are inexorable and a little pat: Commie cell organizer, a training stint in Moscow, the Cominform, the return to Prague as the party's dreaded "Grey Eminence." He has a direct line to the Kremlin, until...
Battle Tested. In Salt Lake City, Grocer Sam Shortino hired a relief clerk so that he could attend a meeting of the Butchers' and Grocers' Association, where he listened attentively as police warned of the danger of keeping loaded guns in stores, returned to find that his substitute had routed two robbers by firing at them with the pistol Shortino always kept in his store...