Word: unfairness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Plenty of Room. Fox himself is anxious to dispel any suspicions that he stands to profit by unfair "monopoly" or "state trading." His contract, he says, affects only about 25% of the islands' total trade ($450 million in 1940), and private Indonesians are free to deal with whom they please. Competitors, he insists, are welcome-particularly from...
...evidence: Transamerica controls about 80% of all deposits in Nevada, 39% in Oregon, 42% in California, including 100% in 13 counties. The complaint was based on more than a general charge of the Brandeisian sense of bigness. According to the complaints of scores of bought-out banks, Giannini played unfair ball by hiring away their top officers and paying fantastic prices to their stockholders...
...hang on to its biggest customers, Morton Salt Co. had been giving extraordinarily large trade discounts. Unconvinced that this had any relation to real savings in Morton's costs, FTC had charged that the discounts were unfair to smaller buyers. The Supreme Court in effect had ordered Morton Salt to stick to a uniform price list for big & small alike. Reasoned one businessman: "If everyone does stick to his price list and the price lists gravitate to a common level, as they will be compelled to do under the economic law of uniform price, then, according to the Supreme...
...finish loading the cargo last month without more pay. They said, with more anger than truth, that the zinc oxide turned them blue. Penalties for the stoppage (including loss of seven days' pay) were clapped on them. The eleven-and many another docker-thought the penalties grossly unfair. Communists eagerly sniffed their opportunity...
...Unfair Trade. In Los Angeles, a divorce was granted to Mrs. Arthur M. Hamburger after she testified that her husband insisted on doing the cooking, made her do the dishes...