Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of issuing price has been adopted by Republic in the expectation that it will lead to the elimination of unfair trade practices which have grown up in the steel industry. These unfair practices have included secret concessions, discriminatory prices as between customers, rebates and other methods harmful alike to producer and consumer. The steel industry has become notorious for such practices and for its inability to earn a fair profit...
...hewed to the line, was neither pro nor con anything or anybody. After both doctors had been dismissed, it did editorially crack down on the athletic board for painting Spears dark black, Meanwell lily white, upholding the board of regents' contention that the aspersions cast on Spears were unfair and unjustified...
...asking a special breakfast rate shows beyond a doubt that many who board outside prefer to live in the houses. Though such men as a rule comprise the wealthiest group in the college, to offer them a breakfast rate based on actual food costs cannot be regarded as an unfair privilege for the rich, particularly when the advantages of having them in the houses are considered. Furthermore the college does not stand to lose, as lunch and dinner would be served at the regular charges...
...Europe originating from Hitler's proposals, he replied that such a development was entirely conceivable. "I don't think that Hitler is a militarist" he asserted. "He is rearming, like everyone else, to protect himself, but the more fact that he is doing it in defiance of an unfair treaty does not make his policy a belligerent one. France and England are strengthening their armies and navies, too, but they are doing it quietly and are not violating the Versailles treaty; therefore they are not 'militarists' in the eyes of the world...
Busy is the Federal Trade Commission in detecting unfair and monopolistic practices in U. S. industry. Last week it cracked down on American Character Doll Co. of Manhattan. Advertisements had pictured a waterproof doll, called "Sally Jane," immersed in a jar of water without any ill result. An unnamed, ordinary doll was shown in a similar underwater position, in a state of disintegration. Saying that dolls in general are not supposed to be "amphibian," the Federal Trade Commission resented the pictures as an unfair, competitive slur on the landlubber doll, ordered American Character Doll to show cause why it should...