Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write a note to Attorney General Cummings asking him "to take appropriate action" (i. e. prosecute under the anti-trust laws) against steel companies as the result of findings by the Federal Trade Commission that Secretary Ickes had been getting collusive bids on steel piling-an action which was shortly followed by Mr. Ickes taking a separate fling at the steel industry for failure to comply with the orders of the Labor Board...
Coming back from Geneva to Paris, as soon as he heard that "in principle" the great majority of strikes seemed to have been settled locally, Trade Union Boss Léon Jouhaux estimated that the wage increases, the shortening of the worker's week to 40 hours and the enforced improvement of working conditions must increase French production costs by at least 35%-and they are already among the highest in the world, most other countries having cheapened their prices by cheapening their money. Unquestionably this week Le Peuple Souverain thought they had won higher wages in gold standard...
...boom. The Dow-Jones industrial stock averages rose 3½ points to 154, utility averages about a point to 32, rail averages less than a point to 46½. Credit for even these gains had to be divided with a big batch of favorable business items, particularly in retail trade, which had been rolling at the best levels since 1930 and was ready-set for distribution of the Bonus, a $1,900,000,000 shot in the retail...
Assembled in Richmond, Va. last week for a five-day annual convention was the National Association of Credit Men, second biggest trade organization in the U. S. Its membership of 20,000 is exceeded only by that of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In unity of spirit, however, NACM has the edge on the Chamber because its members to a man are wrapped up in one subject: the payment of bills. "Pep and Song Periods" opened each general NACM session. Executive Manager Henry Herman Heimann, a tall, slender Michigander, keynoted broadly on "The Next 40 Years...
...caught, commercial racketeers can usually be convicted for mail or bankruptcy fraud, both Federal offenses. But in retail trade a creditor has no recourse against a dead beat except to sue. It is no crime to charge a mink coat, then fail...