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...stony-faced at his elbow. The Secretary explained that: 1) the production of corn and hogs must be cut because the export of pork had fallen off; 2) the packers would be handed a code which provided the Government access to their books, power to control their margin of profit; 3) the AAA's milk marketing agreements were unsatisfactory and would have to be revised to control dairy production...
...diterranée (TIME, Dec. 4). Though two Palais employes were originally charged with arson, the fire, police decided after all, was due to "carelessness." Not without brisk haggling the French syndicate which leased the casino from Mr. Gould and had insured itself against loss of profit resulting from such events as an act of God, settled with the 20 French and 20 British companies which wrote the insurance. "We are getting," boasted the syndicate's imaginative publicity man, "$12,000 for every night that the casino is obliged to remain closed this season. We expect that it will...
...present undiscriminating drive against public utility rates is calculated to interfere with business expansion and to slow down recovery by reducing the profit of these corporations and therefore their ability to secure money to construct extensions to and replacements of their existing plants. Although the C.W.A. recovery program is useful at the present moment to help get things going, it is, of course, a temporary measure, and by its extensive borrowing merely increases the burden upon the profits of future industry for years to come...
...wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap at $3.00; served in a hotel dining room these prices are nearly doubled. Liquor by the individual drink is more reasonably priced, but even then it could be cut in half and still yield a profit...
...last night at a meeting of the Liberal Club in the Lowell House Common Room. "However," he continued, "big monopolies make Socialism easy." Dr. Laidler also claimed that the separation of ownership and management which is so widespread today invalidates the argument that industry can be run only with profit as an incentive...