Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asquith Government and continued until 1921 by David Lloyd George to hit war-profiteers, will be reintroduced under the euphemistic head of "the national defense contributions." This will be raised "during Britain's rearming years on the growth of profits from "all persons and firms engaged in industry, trade, or business of any kind" making an annual profit in excess of $10,000. This new tax, it is estimated, will bring in only $10,000,000 in the current year but nearer $125,000,000 next year...
...practicing law in Stamford. Conn. At that time he took a legal trouncing in a suit against Alcoa. Later his law firm represented Baush Machine Too! Co. in its prolonged efforts to recover from Alcoa $9,000,000 in triple damages for as an impressive a list of unfair trade practices as ever brightened a docket. In the end the famed Baush case was settled out of court, but meantime Mr. Cummings had become chief prosecutor to the New Deal. Hardly was he well settled in Washington before the Department of Justice started to investigate Aluminum Co. of America...
Aluminum Co. of America has been unquestionably the world's most-investigated corporation. It was even investigated and hauled into court back in the trust-busting days of Roosevelt I. The Federal Trade Commission had it on the carpet in 1917 and again in 1919. Three years later both the Trade Commission and the Department of Justice looked into the company's purchase of a fabricating competitor. Later that year the Trade Commission started an investigation of the cooking utensil industry, which turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate...
Murray M. Day, Gustavus Ober, and Brooke Lee of the Princeton, affirmative team vainly advanced the contention that neutrality, when strictly applied, has and will keep a country out of war. Such a policy would allow reciprocal trade with other non-belligerent nations but would cut out all war profits...
Speakers at this forum will be Alvin H. Hansen, University of Minnesota professor and co-author of the Economics A text book of last year, Gardiner Means of the National Resources Board, Corvin Edwards, of the Federal Trade Commission, and others. Edward H. Chamberlin, associate professor of Economics, presides...