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...steady the market was that, as the peg was removed, Secretary Wallace began to talk of subsidizing the export of 50,000,000 bu. of wheat from the Pacific Northwest, and of raising the wheat processing tax to pay for the subsidy. The Secretary of Agriculture has power to fix processing taxes at an amount equal to the difference between current prices and the average price (88?) for 1909-14. The present tax of 30? a bushel represented that difference on June 15. For several weeks wheat prices have been about 88? but the tax continues. But the processing...
...Ickes-Moffett code set a 40-hr. week, 40? an hour minimum pay, empowered the President to fix for 90 days a maximum base price per gallon of gasoline, crude oil prices per bbl. to be 18.5 times as high as the gasoline price. By way of compromise the whole question of price was, however, left subject to change by a committee of 15 to be appointed by the President. The committee is to "recommend" to States the quota production they should permit and by forbidding greater shipments in interstate commerce will enforce its "recommendations." Furthermore, withdrawal of oil from...
...less than 2,500 and $15 in cities of over 500,000, for all accountants, clerks, salesmen (except outside salesmen, drivers and circulation men) and for all reporters earning less than $35 a week. Reporters earning more were classed as "professionals," were not made subject to the provisions. 3) Fixed a 40-hr. week and a minimum hourly pay of 40? for all mechanical workers. 4) Guaranteed to employes the right of collective bargaining; guaranteed that no employe be required to join or refrain from joining any organization, as a condition of employment. Meanwhile staff writers of eight Philadelphia...
...contingent liability, but the worst happened. When Depression set in, mortgages defaulted, foreclosed property could not be sold and investors instead of buying new mortgages to replace the ones that matured, loudly demanded their money. By last February the guaranteed mortgage companies were in a terrible fix. What was worse, everybody knew...
...defective transformer brought all passenger elevator service to a dead stop in New York's' 77-story Chrysler Building, marooned 14 passengers in cars between floors. In the crowded main floor lobby Landlord Walter P. Chrysler waited 25 min. while mechanics tried to fix his elevators, finally ascended to his office on the 56th floor in a slow-moving freight elevator. Hugo C. Leuteritz, communications engineer of Pan American Airways, would not wait, stomped up 59 flights to his office...