Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve years ago a sandy-haired German with vast feet and an enormous nose shuffled into the Manhattan gallery of Erhard Weyhe. He was, he said, a baker by trade. His name was Emil Ganso and he had a portfolio of drawings to show. Dealer Weyhe did not think the pictures were good enough for an immediate exhibition. Nevertheless he signed Baker Ganso to a long contract, gave him a small weekly allowance on which to live while he went on painting. It was a shrewd investment. Proudly last week Dealer Weyhe gave his protégé an exhibition...
Having put up with this exaction of "phantom" freight charges for some 20 years, steel consumers finally revolted. After prolonged proceedings, the Federal Trade Commission issued a cease & desist order in 1924. Pittsburgh Plus was then replaced by the basing point system, which substituted a number of cities for Pittsburgh. Other industries now using basing point prices, which may also, include "phantom" freight charges, are cement, lumber, paper, flour, sugar...
...natural object for New Deal reform, the basing point was thoroughly damned by the Federal Trade Commission in a special study in 1934. A special NRA report urged modifications so drastic that they would mean virtual abolition of the system. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler is earnestly trying to end the basing point once & for all with a bill introduced last month...
...Fashion Originators' Guild of America, founded three years ago to stamp out style piracy and now the principal prop of highgrade dressmaking. On the other side was Wm. Filene's Sons Co., famed Boston department store, which had brought suit charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Back of Filene's stood Associated Merchandising Corp., largest co-operative buying organization for department stores in the East. The National Retail Dry Goods Association had made the same conspiracy charge in a letter sent to its 5,000 members. To many a dress manufacturer the Filene suit meant that...
...possibility of any group of dress manufacturers being powerful enough to draw fire on grounds of monopoly seemed so remote as to be funny. Throughout the post-War period in which women's apparel had grown to be the sixth largest industry in the U. S., the dress trade had been chaotically innocent of any organization at all. Looking back on those days, dress manufacturers and jobbers remember only a hodgepodge of feverishly busy small houses trying to keep up with an enormously expanding market, trying to please retail buyers who demanded fresh styles and fresh discounts, trying...