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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise the states desire to maintain local control of education and the federal government's reluctance to hand out funds without some control over their use, Sargent suggests a federal board of education, named by laymen, to serve as an advisory group to state education administrations...
...asked to go to Germany for ECA and report back on what should be done with German plants. Mrs. Wilson called off the party, packed a suitcase with chipped beef and peanuts, and went with him. (She thriftily considered scratching out the date on the invitations for possible future use. The engraver didn't think it would "look right for Mrs. Wilson to do that," so she gave up the idea...
...complaint charged other monopolistic practices: refusal by A.T. & T. to let outside manufacturers use alternative patents which Western Electric was not using; suppression of cheaper improvements that might cut A.T. & T.'s rate bases. Example: the hand telephone, developed in 1907, was not introduced as standard equipment until...
...said it was not concerned with pricing methods, but only with possible conspiracies to fix prices. Individual businessmen, it said, are free to compute their prices by using basing points, absorbing freight charges, or any other way they please, provided they do not use the system to conspire to fix prices illegally...
...also sounded a warning that any use of the basing-point system was likely to arouse its suspicions. FTC said it would suspect conspiracy whenever: 1) prices quoted by competing firms stayed uniform over any length of time, or were changed in concert; 2) competitors whose prices were unusually low were squeezed out or "disciplined" some other way; 3) companies habitually accepted a drop in sales rather than cut their prices...