NRA’s code of fair competition for the safety razor and safety razor blade manufacturing industry

No, not that NRA. The other NRA, the one more properly refered to as the National Recovery Administration. Tasked by the goverment to help the population and industry to recover after the Great Depresion, NRA set out to eliminate “cut throat competition” by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of “fair practices” and set prices.

In 1934 the turn had come to the cut throat industry of, well, avoiding cut throats. and while the Code is somewhat dry to read, it does include gems such as this:

The term ” safety razor and safety razor blade manufacturing industry “, hereinaiter referred to as the ” industry “, means the manufacture of safety razor blade holders and/or safety razor blades for sale.

From the Code of fair competition for the safety razor and safety razor blade manufacturing industry

The code set quotas on how much each manufacturer could manufacture, as well as stating a minemum wage, forbidding children to work in the Industry, and setting penalites for unfair trading practices.

The full Code can be found at archive.org, and downloaded in several formats.

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