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The article reports on a comprehensive rating bill, scheduled for reintroduction in the District of Columbia, that focus on the pricing controversy in the insurance industry. The bill was sponsored by retiring senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, who seeks prompt action on abuses in insurance rate regulation. O'Mahoney believes that the price-fixing by the rating bureaus, which pool the companies' underwriting experience, makes a sham of competition.

The article reports on the meeting of key finance ministers of the world at the Pan American Union Building in Washington in March 1973, in which they talked about fixed rates and went in favor of using them as foundation for a new international monetary system. It says that French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing seemed to be the only one in favor of a fixed exchange rate system. According to the author, it is unclear if the U.S. wants a return to fixed rates. The pressure faced by the U.S. dollar in the German markets is also discussed.

The article reports and comments on current events making news during the week of July 27, 1953. A number of items are covered including a reduction in the post World War II debt owed by Germany to the United States, the results of the racial integration of restaurants in Washington D.C. and the impact on business of high interest rates.

The article reports on the challenges and threat faced by individual employer experience rating in Washington D.C. It states that the rating would determine payroll tax liability under unemployment compensation. It notes that supporters of the principle of providing lower tax rates for employers with stable employment were attacked in Congress when the Senate rejected the McCormack amendments.

This section offers news briefs in Washington, D.C. A bid by international airlines for a 5 percent increase in transatlantic fares was rejected by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The Lobby Investigating Committee plans to implement stringent new requirements for public disclosure of lobbying activities. The U.S. Senate and Congress have passed separate housing bills to prop up sagging homebuilding industry.

The article gives an update on Washington, D.C. for the week ending September 16, 1936. The U.S. Congress is expected to support the government's crop insurance which will allow the possibility of crop diversification to farmers. President Franklin Roosevelt will offer low-cost government power to utilities if they agree to lower rates and to engage in regional private-public pooling agreements. Various New Deal dam projects approved by Republican candidates include the Quoddy dam in Maine, Grand Coulee in Washington and Casper Alcova in Wyoming.

The article reports on the criticisms against the proposed selective fare increase of Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) Chairman Robert D. Timm in Washington D.C. It states that the court appeals decision has raised questions on the role of CAB in approving multilateral international fare agreements devised by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). It notes that the issues revolve around the efforts of the U.S. and foreign airlines to agree on transatlantic fares.

The article discusses the global monetary crisis due to the decision of German central bank president Karl Klasen to free-float the German currency deutschemark. It reports that West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has hinted that the mark will not be pegged until after the Washington D.C. meeting of the International Monetary Fund (UIMF) in September 1971. It also mentions that negotiations have been ongoing among the European Common Market Six to set a common European position on exchange rate flexibility and to end the mark float.

Information on the 12th annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that was held in Washington, D.C. in the last week of September 1957 is presented. Sir Dennis Robertson of the Cambridge University in England stresses the advocacy of stable price level. Focus of the meeting involves mainly in the issue of inflation, associating it with the gold standard system on monetary policy.

The article focuses on the economic conditions of Washington D.C. in 1953. It states that the saving percentage of the country is nearly 25%, which is said to be below the 5.9 million dollars according to President Harry S. Truman. It says that other tax reductions are scheduled for 1954, however the collapse of the peace attempts will be allowed by the U.S. Congress. It also mentions that corporation income tax rates will reduce by March 1, 1954 as the law endures.

This article presents brief descriptions of various socio-political issues and developments of the U.S. It reports that the Quemoy crisis in Taiwan is not that the State Department is staggering drunkenly toward another diplomatic defeat or an atomic war. Such behavior has been habitual with this particular State Department and is to be expected. A news regarding California's public utilities policy for tax is described. These utilities are asking for an increase based on taxes they do not pay. At the inception of the tax amortization program, this journal pointed out that the utility companies, which were even then flooding Washington with applications for tax amortization certificates, would eventually contend that tax gains should not be taken into consideration in fixing rates.

The article offers information on the denial of Donald Nelson, president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, for the appointment as the War Assets Administrator in Washington D.C.

Focuses on the crumbling of the Progressive-Democratic coalition in Washington, D.C. Assessment of the tariff bill; Analysis of the coalition rewriting the tariff bill; Alternative of vetoing a Republican tariff bill.

The article presents a preview of Washington for 1941. The 77th Congress will reportedly be tasked to halt the defense boom, as rising wage rates in the machine trades is a sign of a dangerous inflationary spiral. The article states that the situation of having no clearcut Treasury policy on Government activity will prevail until May or June, and that Congress will wait for administrative steps to address the 20% rise in total defense cost due to increasing wage rates before taking action.

Information about the topics discussed during the spring board meeting of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. is presented. The event featured keynote speaker Lewis Cenker who discussed the strategies that curb inflation with tight money and high interest rates. The delegates complained that the housing industry is in crisis but the U.S. Congress nor the administration seemed to care.

The article presents information related to the effect of integration on the District of Columbia schools. The effort of the NAACP to have the investigation called off was a mistake, for the testimony that has been given forces people to face grave problems. Washington rates with Mississippi in its school population of 39,000 white and 69,000 colored children. Three of Washington's white high schools stood among the top five percent of the nation in academic achievement. The breakdown in discipline has been most acute in schools to which white and colored children were assigned in about equal proportions.

The article offers information on the issues related to world economy being discussed at the meeting of bankers and finance ministers from member nations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. U.S. Treasury Secretary John B. Connally reached an agreement with foreign powers to discuss the sharing of financial cost of maintaining the U.S. troops abroad. Other participants included French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Japanese Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta.

This article presents information on slums. It is informed that cities like Baltimore, Cleveland, Boston, Buffalo and Saint Louis are each pouring dollar 7,000,000 to dollar 8,000,000 a year into slum drains. On a national basis, with over 20 million living in slums, the bill easily exceeds dollar 2 billion annually. These are the direct, tangible costs. Washington, DC reports that its large slum clearance program known as the southwest renewal area is expected to boost the section's tax yield from dollar 451,000 to dollar 3,430,000. This gain projected to other renewal areas gives hope of an increased tax yield, overall, of dollar 7,000,000 annually, an amount sufficient to amortize the district's whole renewal cost in ten years.

The article reports on a campaign for public works of the Public Works Administration (PWA) in Washington D.C. amidst the release of regulations to govern construction on the work-relief program of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

A photograph of the construction of the House office building in front of the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. as of March 25, 1931 is presented.

Information about the meeting of the U.S. President Richard Nixon with the top businessmen and non-Government economists at the White House, Washington, D.C. in 1974 is presented. Nixon expressed uneasiness that the tight money policy of the Federal Reserve Board would lead the economy into recession. "Time" Board of Economists indicated the flat output of the country's goods and services. Presidential Counselor Kenneth Rush advocated government pressure in restraining price increases of wages.

The article reports on the crime rates in Washington D.C. It mentions that the city ranks first in robberies, second in murders and third in total offense since two-thirds of its population are mostly black. Despite the information given, Mayor Walter Washington insisted that most of the city was safe even after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The article focuses on the discussion concerning international finance among British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the U.S. Secretaries of Treasury and Commerce, the Federal Reserve chairman, and the chief presidential economist in Washington D.C. It notes that Treasury secretary Henry Hamill Fowler has agreed with the Prime Minister on the urgent need for world monetary reform to expand the international supply of capital. It also features Federal Reserve chairman William McChesney Martin.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the problems faced by Washington, D. C. over its capital and budget in conjunction to the U.S. Congress which is its only city council.

The article reports that the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Public Works has recommended to the commissioners of the District of Columbia a long-range plan for civic improvements.

The article presents updates related to business in Washington D.C. The show of economy in the House of Representatives have not changed spending prospects. Hearings on social security expansion by the Senate Finance Committee are expected to be concluded. Votes will be made for a broad excise cut on a tax bill.

Information on several issues discussed at the International Monetary Fund meeting at Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. on October 1957 is presented. Topics include the surplus of money crisis, the plan to increase the quotas of member nations, and maintaining the value of pound. The meeting features representatives from member nations including Per Jacobsson of Sweden, British Chancellor of Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft of Great Britain, and Hans Karl Von Mangoldt-Reiboldt of West Germany.

The article focuses on the operation of minibuses along F. Street in Washington D.C. Started in November 1963, the 14 minibuses are transporting mostly women to shopping malls. It claims that the merchants are happy with this combination of shoppers and quick, cheap transportation that increase their sales.

The article focuses on the impact of the 1971 monetary agreement in Washington D.C. to devalue the U.S. dollar on the prices of imported goods sold in the U.S. The resulting price increases are viewed as exactly what was supposed to happen, considering U.S. President Richard Nixon's program of discouraging imports. Companies including Toyo Kogyo Co., Sony Corp., and the British Steel Corp. have reportedly increased their prices. Competitive factors have kept old prices such as those of the Volkswagen Beetle and the Toyota Corolla 1200.

The article presents an outlook related to the political conditions in Washington, D.C. in 1960. It notes the desperation of the Democratic liberals at the Congressional pace due to the Easter recess. It reports the broadening campaign repertory of Senator Stuart Symington as President in the U.S. It mentions the current outburst of a gas pipeline case resulting to a shake-up at the Federal Power Commission.

The article offers economic forecasts for Washington D.C.. It states that prospects for a tax cut are on the rise in the Capitol. Moreover, the telephone and transportation taxes are expected to be resisted by the Congress. Furthermore, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to break the impasse on the request of President Dwight David Eisenhower to remove the statutory of 4 1/4% interest ceiling on long-term government bonds.

The article presents a political outlook in Washington, D.C. The advisers of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower recommends to have the 2.2 billion U.S. dollar taxes expire to be able to prevent debates on his tax legislation in January 1955. The Democrats have been anticipated to play a big role in the implementation of the 1956 farm vote.

The article discusses about the Seattle municipal power system and its private competitor, the Puget Sound Power and Light Company. The Seattle system furnishes a concrete example of a highly successful municipal enterprise which has faced bitter competition and constant political intrigue for about twenty- five years. The success of the organization has been due largely to J. D. Ross, who has been its superintendent almost from the beginning. On March 10, 1931, on the eve of the regular spring election, Ross was suddenly dismissed from the lighting department by Mayor Frank Edwards on vague charges of extravagance and professional incompetence.

The tariff bill that was to relieve the farmer has merged in all its glory from behind the locked doors of the Ways and Means Committee, and one brief glance discloses that it is well calculated to relieve him of practically everything he has left except the mortgage on the farm. The "limited revision" for which Mr. Herbert Hoover called has been "limited" to revising the duties on approximately one thousand commodities, and nearly all the changes are upward.

The article reports on the increase capital investment plans of companies despite high-priced money and admonitions from Washington D.C. It states that the driving forces of the capital investment increase include competition and new technology. However, companies worry that their high capital spending plans will get caught with excess capacity in the event of a business downturn.

Information about the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat) conference held in Washington, D.C. in 1969 is presented. The meeting was attended by representatives from 80 countries including U.S. delegate Leonard Marks. The convention was aimed to outline a permanent charter for world communications which will affect the future of domestic and international systems for television and radio broadcasting as well data communications networks.

The article focuses on the diplomatic dinner held at the White House in Washington D.C. It states that the dinner was intended to discuss and adopt conservation measures that will bring down high oil prices affecting the country and other oil-importing nations. It describes the extravagant setting and ambience of the occasion which was considered as contrary to the somber mood that penetrates the country and non-Communist world. It also explores accelerating inflation condition in the country due to the high petroleum product prices that threatens the operations of both industrial and banking networks. It notes that the event has ended with commitments from participating countries to impose energy-saving initiatives.