Business: The Government's Week: Apr. 11, 1938

Last week the U. S. Government did the following for and to U. 5. Business:

¶ The Federal Trade Commission has been investigating the possible existence of price-fixing and collusion in the cement industry for several months. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced that just to be on the safe side President Roosevelt had ordered that cement purchasing by all Federal agencies be concentrated in the Treasury's Procurement Division, that all bidders on cement and other building materials be required "to certify that there has been no...

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