Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director who never went out to make a sale in his life. Here, on the other hand, was the "Empire Salesman," the ever-young and pepful crowned head. In him Britain had invested millions to build up Edward as Heaven's gift to the masses and to British trade- not to mention women of both hemispheres. Could this investment last week be saved...
...those seeking justice at the august bar of the U. S. Supreme Court fortnight ago was a string of automobile accessory stores doing business under the corporate name, "The Pep Boys, Manny, Moe and Jack of California." The Pep Boys wanted to overthrow California's so-called Fair Trade Act, which forces retailers to maintain the price of trademarked goods at levels fixed by manufacturers. Challenged at the same time by other appellants was a similar Illinois statute. In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court turned down the Pep Boys, held that such price-maintenance legislation by states...
...last week the implications of this Fair Trade ruling had become the hottest topic in the Nation's retail trade. Many states beside Illinois and California have price-maintenance laws, and in those which do not enormous pressure will be brought to have parallel legislation enacted. Only possible obstacles now are state constitutions. A New York law identical with Illinois' was disallowed by state Courts on state constitutional grounds this year...
...Suggested last week was the possibility that New York State might become a free-trade island in a price-fixing...
While Briggs and Motor Products do not compete in the accessory trade they do have one thing in common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike...