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Thus it appeared that the retail and drug codes would go to President Roosevelt with the price-fixing sections intact, but Washington believed that he would await the findings of A. A. A.'s Peek on the Food Code before he made them the law of the land. Meanwhile NRA rushed to nearly every U. S. industry and to all magazines and newspapers, sample advertising copy to start its consumer campaign with the slogan: NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY.
*Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. testified in the Food Code hearing that the temporary blanket code had forced them to add 12,000 employes, the yearly payroll by $10,000,000. . . Woolworth last week was reported it was beginning to hire smarter, wage-worthy salesgirls who would actually sell, not simply make change, wrap packages.