Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumpus at Butte goes back to last month when the Army furloughed 4,000 soldier miners in an effort to ease the terrific shortage of labor in the nonferrous mines. In Utah a few of the new recruits were turned down because of physical disabilities which the Army had passed but which would not stand up in the face of stiff health requirements of the Utah mines. But to Butte were assigned 30-odd physically healthy furloughed Negro soldiers who had only to meet the requirements of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1-so old it is known...
...TIME, May 19, 1941), have been busy fighting it ever since. The argument that went best with the public was that the chains spend $27,000,000 annually in the State (for farm produce, manufactured goods, wages, etc.*), $4,000,000 more than the total sales of their 123 Utah stores...
Four weeks ago progressive, wavy-haired Lewis C. Shave, who heads thousands of independent grocers federated in his Nation-Wide Stores Co., told Utah grocers that Georgia courts had quickly applied that State's chain-store tax to his federation, put it out of business in the area. Said he: "These laws are not in the best interest of the independent grocer...
...Utah this week political dopesters figured the chains had a better than even chance to win. For one thing the all-powerful Mormon Church has been pleasantly silent during the whole hubbub (perhaps because it controls a wholesale house which sells to chain stores). If the chains win, it will be their biggest victory since California voters tossed out chain-store taxes in 1936, will probably mean an all-out drive against the chain-store tax laws of 19 other States...
...Chiefly because of their large purchases of Utah beet sugar, flour, meats, etc., to be sold in other parts of the country...