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Bethlehem Steel Pays $40,000 Penalty for Rebates Case
Philadelphia July 1 Bethlehem Steel company paid a total $40,000 in fines after convictions for granting demurrage rebates to Philadelphia and Reading and Lehigh Valley railroads. The $40,000 check, to Whitaker Thompson, US district attorney, was sent by Bethlehem’s John G Johnson, principal patformer. The case marked the first six bids under the interstate commerce law amended in 1936 to curb such rebates.
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Philadelphia
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Bethlehem Steel Company
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