Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...back as 1904, Du Pont, for example, had set up a noncontributory plan; there were an estimated 4,500 other such plans in operation in the U.S. When steelmen finally gave in and guaranteed $100-a-month pensions (including federal aid), their final offer was higher than the amount that the union had been willing to settle for in the beginning. Even then, the price that industry paid for peace was not large. Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene Grace, who had broken the strike stalemate, said that the annual cost to his company would be $10 million, only...
...monopoly forced high prices on the consumer. Instead, cheaper prices and greater efficiency seemed to be grounds for prosecution. In trying to break up the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. into seven separate grocery chains, the U.S. complained that A. & P. failed to mark up prices the normal amount. There was no question of monopoly, for A. & P.'s share of total business had shrunk from 11.6% in 1933 to 6.4% in 1949. In the same manner, Antitrust went after Wilmington's Du Pont empire, called it "the largest single concentration of industrial power...
Gottfried Haberier, Warburg Professor of Economics: "Schumpeter was a great economist because he was more than an economist. He himself used to say that an economist who is not also a historian, who does not know a fair amount of mathematics and logic, who is not familiar with statistical methods, is not qualified for this profession. He was all these and more besides. He had no real among living economists as a universal scholar, and his premature death will be mourned all over the world...
Officials of WHRB declined to comment last night on the amount of Kaltenborn's contribution...
...income tax. Last week the California branch of the American Automobile Association lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, was told it must pay taxes back to 1943. If the decision is applied to all 750 branches of the A.A.A. with its 2,170,000 members, the total amount of taxes due could reach...