Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like 23 other States, Colorado has an Unfair Practices Law. Passed in 1937, it prohibits merchants from selling goods at less than cost. The Colorado Food Distributors' Association, formed at a mass meeting of Denver grocers to enforce it, has for two years defined "cost" as wholesale price plus 9% for overhead...
...members of the association met in the auditorium of Denver's Conoco (Continental Oil) Building, decided that 9% was too low. On a show of hands, only a few grocers confessed to operating costs of less than 14%, none to less than 12%. The minimum markup under the Unfair Practices Law was upped promptly to 12%, plus 2% for grocers with their own wholesale warehouses...
Biggest obstacle to the spread of Progressive Education has been college entrance requirements. Progressives claim that these requirements: 1) keep high-school curricula in a strait jacket; 2) are unfair to the five out of six high-school students who never go to college. Because colleges insisted that students could not cope with college unless they had prescribed doses of mathematics and foreign languages, P. E. A. eight years ago made U. S. colleges a sporting proposition: let them admit students without these requirements and see what happened...
...Negro Policeman. "New York's Police Commissioner Valentine ordered an investigation. So did District Attorney Tom Dewey, out campaigning for Willkie. Protests and denunciations began to blister in the press. Somebody remembered that Steve Early had written a Saturday Evening Post article last year on the unfair attacks on President Roosevelt. Its title: "Below the Belt...
Meanwhile Trustbuster Thurman Arnold joined the fray, charged the producers with "harsh, onerous and unfair trade practices," indicted Hollywood's Big Eight (Loew's, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, 20th-century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists) under the antitrust laws. His announced objective was to divorce production and distribution, make the big producers ' give up their 2,400 theatres. Last spring he called the industry a dictatorship, insisted it must be reorganized. While independent exhibitors cheered, the Big Eight sent their lawyers to Washington...