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Under the basing-point system, the important fact was that cement delivered to any given job was sold at a uniform price, no matter who manufactured it. To the court this was collusion, and a wicked practice that must be stopped forthwith. However sound the decision, it did not make things crystal clear. Just a week later, in another Big Business case, the Court upheld an FTC order which seemed to make the appearance of collusion inescapable...
...agency ever before resigned an account of this size except to avoid being fired." This week, F. C. & B. was, in effect, fired. It had offered to carry on for as long as it took to find a successor, but American Tobacco wasted no time in finding one. Effective forthwith, it named Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. as the new agency for Lucky Strike advertising, turned its Pall Mall account over to Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles...
...Speaker of the House Joe Martin, who ranks second only to the President of the U.S., gave it his official blessing. Send airmail letters, urged Speaker Martin. "A 15? stamp might turn the tide for peace." New York's post office noted that airmail letters to Italy increased forthwith 100%. Martin's hope, and the hope of Italo-Americans, was that these exhortations from the world's greatest internationale, the U.S., might turn the tide of international Communism-that letters from son to father, brother to brother, cousin to cousin, might help win needed votes...
...emergency policy should establish forthwith a Council of Western Europe consisting of representatives of the governments of the sixteen participating countries in the European Recovery Plan, and Western Germany, to lay down the broad lines of common action. The council should have power to set up permanent international staffs to coordinate the social, economic and defense policies...
Both players drew majors, but not before the Dartmouth trainer had cost his team a match penalty by interfering in the scrap. This gave Captain Lavalle his choice of which Dartmouth player to eject for the rest of the game. Joe Riley was forthwith dispatched and the Crimson took over, dominating the play and sinking three in two minutes...