Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could drink them under the table. His formal education was slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...
Under the basing-point system, the important fact was that cement delivered to any given job was sold at a uniform price, no matter who manufactured it. To the court this was collusion, and a wicked practice that must be stopped forthwith. However sound the decision, it did not make things crystal clear. Just a week later, in another Big Business case, the Court upheld an FTC order which seemed to make the appearance of collusion inescapable...
...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 Court, the sellers...
...doctors in military uniform had something to tell the A.M.A. doctors about what happens when an atomic bomb falls, and what to do about it. The news was chilling...
...Bronx, Babe Ruth put on his old uniform for the last time: in a homeplate ceremony at Yankee Stadium the uniform was formally presented to the Hall of Fame and National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Bambino's celebrated old number 3 was officially retired, never again to identify a Yankee...