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...Anti-Chain Store, to protect independent merchants by forbidding fake discounts and rebates to chain purchasers, empowering the Federal Trade Commission to fix maximum discounts on quantity purchases (TIME, March...
...than via Suez; only 37% longer to Hong Kong; 44% longer to Singapore; 51% longer to Calcutta; and a mere 77% longer to the "Gateway of India," Bombay. That His Majesty's subjects should be invited by Hector Bywater thus to rearrange the contents of their minds and fix on a new lifeline of Empire is fundamentally significant, "imperial and oceanic...
...used to support another customer's accounts. Floor brokers and commission merchants with a futures business have to register with the Commission. Among the Commission's wide discretionary powers are the right to delay or advance contract settlements to prevent month-end squeezes, and the right to fix limits on the amount of trading by any one person except in legitimate hedging operations...
...world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like a mocking, Jewish profile. When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt...
Using its constitutional right to fix standards of weight & measure, Congress changed the year from 365 days to 1,000, thus dispensing with elections for a long time. The tax year, however, was reduced to 200 days. Gaily oblivious to its other stories on the Treasury, the Bawl Street Journal also declared that Secretary Morgenthau hoped to balance the budget by having the Government pay a 50% income tax on its own income. "Certainly a 50% increase in income will silence all our critics," Mr. Morgenthau was reported as saying. "True, there may be loopholes where an unscrupulous Government might...