Senate Hearing Finds Profiteering Across Basic Goods
The federal trade commission reported widespread profiteering in essential goods amid war pressures. It cited inflated costs, padded depreciation, and manipulated inventories by major firms including Armour Swift Morris Wilson Cudahy and several meat packers and flour millers.
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Washington
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Armour
Swift
Morris
Wilson and
Cudahy
American Metal Company of New York
Morris & Co
Armour, & Co
Swift & Co
Edward I
Food Administration
Engineer Held for Wreck in Indiana
Investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and Indiana Public Service Commission absolved all involved in the Hagenbeck Wallace circus wreck except Engineer Alonzo Sargent and Fireman Qustay R. They faced manslaughter charges but showed no remorse, amid the dramatic collapse of the circuses sleeping cars.
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Hammond
Ind
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Service Commission of Indiana
Alonzo Sargent
Eng R Sargent
Rea
Air Mail Service Head Capt Weidenbach Named Leader
Capt. A. C. Weidenbach appointed head of the government's air mail flyers after three months of service abroad with the American expeditionary forces. He came over as a private about a year ago. The appointment is temporary with the plan to develop the service for a smooth handover to a successor in a short time.
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A. C. Weidenbach
American Expeditionary Forces
Racial Miner Demographics in South Africa Noted
Report cites 317000 miners in South Africa with only 32000 identified as white. Context suggests significant non white labor share. outcome emphasizes ongoing demographic imbalance in mining workforce and potential policy implications.
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Anines
South Africa
Trade unions shrink as New Zealand bees and graphite rise
Membership in Austrian trade unions drops to 150000 while New Zealand reports 4891 registered salaries for over 50300 colonies of bees. Alabama led crystalline graphite production last year, with New York second and Pennsylvania third. An inventor patents spectacles to aid watchful work.
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New Zealand
Alabama
New York
Pennsylvania
Brazil backs eucalyptus planting to ease fuel shortage
Government action promotes widespread eucalyptus planting as a solution to Brazil's fuel crisis. Winnipeg's fire service strike left 160 firefighters idle after a dispute with electricians and waterworks workers. Vancouver trades council protests against bringing African American workers from the United States to staff Canadian Pacific dining cars.
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Brazil
Winnipeg
Can
Vancouver Trades and Labor ‘Council
United States
Canadian Pacific Railroad
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Lincoln Memorial
Council of National Defense
Food and Fuel Administrations
War Trade Board
Quartermaster Corps of
Army
Navy
Ignace Paderewski
America
Germany
AIR. Mail Service Head
Royal Marines
Postscripts
First National Bank
Dillon
B. F. White
J.H. Gilbert
the Dillon Bakery
F. C. McFadden
Gilad Linen
Trench
Eaton
Highland Linen
Tribune Book Store
Montana
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