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...Bethesda, Md. which was loaded with implications. The dealer, one R. P. Sabine, had put in the low bid on 1,500 trucks which the Civilian Conservation Corps proposed to buy. His bid was declared ineligible by General Johnson because Mr. Ford had failed to sign the automobile code and under Presidential ruling only Blue Eagle firms could receive Government contracts (TIME, Aug. 21). Dealer Sabine protested that his firm was under the Blue Eagle, that he was, in fact, a leader of the NRA in his locality. Said he: "I submitted the bids as a private dealer...
...another. They called a meeting, denounced Mr. Ford's statement as evasive, declared they would "prosecute vigorously" the charges they had filed against the Ford Company with the National Labor Board. That same day Mr. Ford took steps to bring his company into line with a third automobile code provision- the 35-hr-average work week. He announced that no less than 9.000 men would be laid off each week for a seven-day period beginning this week until all had reduced their hours from 40 to 35 by Jan. 1. "The company is taking this mandatory step...
...Squabble between publishers and General Johnson is typical of the current reaction against the National Recovery Act. There is, it seems, a section of the permanent code which allows the president to license certain industries if "destructive wage or price cutting or other activities contrary to the policy of" NIRA should exist in them. Newspapers, sensing here a possible threat to journalistic freedom, demand that this offending fragment be struck out or amended in some way before their individual code is signed...
...identical price . . . and that this price is the odd figure of $37.75) point unmistakably to the con clusion that these letters were the result of consultation and collusion. ... It seems clear that these are noncompetitive prices lacking the safeguard to the consumer which competition provides. Manifestly . . . the [steel] code was not intended to eliminate competition. On the contrary, it is by its own terms a 'Code of Fair Competition...
...Under the oil code Texas and Oklahoma last week whittled down their production quotas and Secretary Ickes, hopeful of maintaining the basic Midcontinent price of $1.11 a barrel for crude oil (set three weeks ago), warned producers against cheating under express threat of exercising his "drastic powers." Meanwhile Nature, with a more powerful threat, endangered again the best laid plans of oilmen for keeping down production: in Anderson County, Tex., gushed the discovery well of a new oil field...