Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a potential guest list, preparations were on a grand scale. Congress appropriated $75,000, the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most...
...Rural Electrification Administrator Cooke and Major General Edward M. Markham, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, hastily issued an edict against "political" speeches. New Dealers continued their "non-political" power campaigns. Dr. Harlow S. Person (Rural Electrification) and K. Sewall Wingfield (PWA) criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects...
...when Industry was racing the approaching Blue Eagle and the threat of inflation, and the imminence of Repeal was intoxicating the stockmarket (TIME, July 21, 1933). Nevertheless, this week as Labor Day came & went, most U. S. businessmen concluded that the summer of 1936 had been good for trade, that autumn should, by experience, be even better. Indices of a smiling summer...
...when dairymen's lobbyists got a 3? a Ib. tax on coconut oil and other imported oils suitable for oleomargarine, they completely overlooked babassu. What was worse, the State Department in February 1935 concluded a trade agreement with Brazil promising to impose no tariffs on the babassu nut or its oil for three years starting...
...this industry is given encouragement, we can look to it to be of great help to us if, when the republic is proclaimed, we should lose some or all of our trade privileges. The industry will then tide us over until we can develop new markets or build new industries...