Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick was Oil Administrator Ickes to point out that this decision invalidated only one small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
With the possible exception of the New York Stock Exchange, no U. S. occupation furnishes newspapers with more statistics than the game of baseball. Daily & weekly pitching, batting and fielding averages, compiled in elaborate, accurate and unintelligible code, form a regular feature of every U. S. sport page. To insure maximum attention, annual statistics are not released until the football season closes. By scanning charts, baseball addicts last week were able to find out exactly how every player in the National League performed during the summer of 1934. Leading batter was Pittsburgh's Paul Waner: 146 games; 217 hits...
...Administration never really made up its mind on the problem. It approved "cost protection," "loss limitation" and all the other pretty names for price-fixing with serious misgivings. First to go were the service codes. Last week the National Industrial Recovery Board struck price-fixing from a basic industry code-Lumber. The job of policing 1,000,000 different prices in an industry composed of thousands of individual units was too much of a chore...
Southern hardwood lumbermen openly defied NRA to enforce code prices after they were offered a huge order from Fisher Body Corp. (TIME, Sept. 17). In the softwood regions of the Northwest chiseling was the rule. To keep a finger on the chaotic industry, NIRB last week made a point of retaining the Lumber Code's production control...
...Columbus, Ohio, 40 years ago. At Ohio State University he was a brilliant bedraggled student. Few of his friends knew that at the age of eight his left eye had been shot out by a playful playmate with an arrow. Through the Peace Conference, Thurber served as a code clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. In 1925 he was Nice editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago...