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In the first "trial" the Beale Club represented by John W. Beauchamp and Hugh R. Jones, will argue the case of a consumer who breaks a tooth on a pebble accidentally present in commercially prepared food. Counsels for the defence and the Simpson-Sayre Club will be Robert Brancher and...
When General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. created the $10.000,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation last year to disseminate "economic truths,'' cynics sneered that he was "incorporating General Motors' publicity department." His brother, Harold Sloan, made director of the foundation, proceeded to purify one of the...
The New Deal disapproves of this on the ground that the system of subsidiary operating companies, pyramided to a peak in Wall Street, provides an irresistible chance to overcapitalize at the expense of stockholder and consumer. Hence, while Electric Bond & Share"undertook a major court battle against the holding company...
Campaigns have also been made for turkeys, walnuts, dried fruit, apples, avocados, eggs. In many of them independent stores have also played a part. This year campaigns have already been planned for eggs, rice, potatoes. Because the 1937 bean crop is 23% greater than the 1928-32 norm, chain-store...
The slump he charged primarily to the payment of the soldiers' bonus in 1936, which accentuated inflationary sentiment that got out of bounds in the spring of 1937, drove prices and inventories too> high. As contributory factors he mentioned strikes, increased operating costs of railroads, lack of expansion by...