BUSINESS - ECONOMICS (BE)
(43.3
linear feet; boxes 1-109)
A primary subject category
containing information pertaining to domestic commerce, industries, and
national economic topics such as business trends, costs and standards of
living, inflation, economic controls, national income, effect of automation,
recession, depressions and prosperity.
Also included are records pertaining to patents and invention,
copyrights, trademarks and regulations, cooperatives, monopolies, antitrust,
and post war planning.
Subject categories and
sub-categories fully available for research are bolded. Closed categories and sub-categories have a simple phrase
describing their contents.
DESCRIPTION
OF SECONDARY FILE CODES
File
Code Description
BE Business - Economics (1.4 ft.; boxes 1-4)
This primary subject category contains material relating
to business and non-business views regarding administration economic and
domestic policy; economic policy towards other nations, including developing
nations; minority businesses; domestic and international economic summaries and
forecasts; trade issues regarding Japan; polling information; and Cabinet
Council of Economic Advisers policy studies.
BE001 Domestic Trade (1.5 ft; boxes 4-8)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to takeovers and mergers such as: Texas Air acquisition of Continental
Airlines; LTV takeover of Grumman Corp.; G.Heileman
Brewing and Schlitz Brewery merger; Mobil Oil acquisition of Marathon Oil;
LTV-Republic Steel merger; Allegheny purchase offer for Conrail; Sante Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad merger; Mesa
Partners (T. Boone Pickens) takeover of Unocal; Texas Air-Eastern Airlines
merger; Fujitsu acquisition of Fairchild Corporation; and C3 acquisition of C3,
Inc. Other material covers Department of Justice merger guidelines; Local
Government Antitrust Act of 1984; Antitrust Reform Act of 1985; product
liability legislation; resale price maintenance; domestic or local content
legislation; Federal Anti-Tampering Act; “gray market” imports; and the Omnibus
Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.
BE002 Economic Controls (0.5 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to decontrol of crude oil and refined petroleum products; deregulation
(decontrol) of natural gas; wage and price regulatory program; S.1503 Standby
Petroleum Allocation Act of 1982; deregulation of trucking industry; and rent
control.
BE003 Industry (5.1 ft; boxes 9-22)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to enterprise zones; private sector initiatives; minority business
development; productivity; troubled industries; White House Conference on
Productivity; bailouts; Industrial Revitalization Act; privatization; industry
policies; business liaison group; National Innovation and productivity Act of
1983; National Academy of Engineering; National Industry Policy; textile imports;
employer options to support working families; industrial competitiveness;
business bankruptcies; Invest Indonesia, Inc.; quarterly productivity and cost
estimates; semiconductor industry; electric shaver industry; Trade, Employment
and Productivity Act of 1987; 21st Century Foundation; Airline Competition Act
of 1987; and an executive order on “Business Confidentiality Procedures.”
BE003-01 Aerospace Industry (0.2 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to airline industry; space industry; military contracts; research and
development; Air Atlanta; Northrop; and Texas Air.
BE003-02 Chemicals
(0.1 ft.;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to Consumer Product Safety Commission ban on urea-formaldehyde foam
insulation; and chemical weapons.
BE003-03 Coal Industry (0.3 ft.;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to regulation; coal gasification; alternative fuels; Clean Air Act;
National Coal Association (NCA); NCA Policy Issues Board; federal eminent
domain and coal slurry pipelines; capital formation; U.S.-Japan Energy Working
Group; placer mining and strip mining.
BE003-04 Communications Industry (1.2 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to S. 898 Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Legislation; S. 929
Amateur Radio Service and Private Land Mobile Services Act of 1981; the Federal
Communication Commission (FCC); the Financial Interest and Syndication Rule
(FISR); intellectual property rights in new media; the AT&T divesture and
all access charges for newly competing telecommunication companies; proposed
S.1917 eliminating the Equal Time and Fairness broadcast rules; federal funding
for public broadcasting, revisions of current communications legislation to
cover emerging cable and other new media; and presidential use of cable
television.
BE003-05 Construction - Housing Industry (1.2 ft; boxes 26-29)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to new regulations proposed for the Davis-Bacon Act establishment of
federal construction job wages; high mortgage interest rates; alternative and
creative home buying financing proposals; correspondence with the National
Association of Realtors and the National Association of Homebuilders; housing
industry bailout legislation and administration positions; fact sheets on
housing industry status and administration efforts to stimulate the industry; mortgage
revenue bonds; correspondence both for and against retention of the completed
contract method of accounting for the construction industry; contract bids for
the U.S.S. Iowa refitting; contract bids for construction of a Grenada airport;
SBA and SBA 8(a) minority business programs and the construction industry.
BE003-06 Food and Kindred Products Industry (0.9 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to foods such as: peanuts, salmon, sugar, citrus fruits, distilled
spirits, beef, almonds, raisins, potatoes, rice, diary foods, apples, wheat,
poultry, pecans, tobacco, and peaches. Other topics covered include farming;
fishing and fisheries; the Southeast
drought; the Emergency Dairy Adjustment Act of 1982; government contracts; the Department
of Agriculture; the Department of Labor; the Department of Commerce; and the Dairy
and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983.
BE003-07 Furniture - Fixture Industry (1 folder;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to federal contracts and foreign imports.
BE003-08 Lumber -
Wood - Paper (0.5 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to timber management policy; the lumber industry; timber industry bailout;
federal timber contracts; trade reform with
BE003-09 Machinery Industry (0.1 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to Soviet trade sanctions; the machine tool industry; robotics; Houdaille industries; the lawnmower industry; foreign competition;
and section 232 violations or problems [the Effect of Imports on National
Security].
BE003-10 Metals Industry (2.6 ft.; boxes 33-40)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to regulatory relief; steel industry statistics; Steel Industry
Compliance Act of 1981; American Iron and Steel Institute; plant and equipment
expenditures; expansions and modernization; Weirton Steel; steel imports; Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA); Clean Air Act; Steel Stretch-out Act; Steel Tripartite
Committee; quotas; ferroalloy industry; Senator Robert Byrd correspondence
regarding Weirton Steel, ferroalloys and other steel related issues; children’s
letters re steel mill closings; specialty steel industry; European Economic
Community; aluminum industry; layoffs; agreement between US Steel and British Steel; stainless and tool steel
agreement; steel industry restructuring; copper industry; Inter-American
Development Bank; Steel Advisory Committee; Bonneville Power Administration;
domestic uranium industry; and the tungsten industry.
BE003-11 Petroleum Industry (0.9 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to gasohol; synthetic fuels; Alaskan Gas Pipeline; Mobil takeover of
Marathon Oil; Tennessee Synfuels Association project;
oil industry; American Petroleum Institute; natural gas; independent oil
producers; ARAMCO (Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company - Arabian American Oil
Company); Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1984; independent
fuel dealers; corporate takeovers; Motor Fuel Sales Competition Improvement Act
of 1985; national security and the domestic oil industry; and oil price
controls.
BE003-12 Plastics - Rubber - Leather Products (0.1 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the footwear industry and imports; section 201 (import duties) filing;
and the takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
BE-003-13 Service Industries (0.3 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the Service Contract Act; Financial Institutions Deregulation Act;
moratorium on bank holding company regulation; Shoreham nuclear power station
licensing; AT&T divestiture; and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935.
BE003-14 Textile - Apparel Industry (0.5 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to TRIS legislation (compensation to manufacturers for banning of
flame retardant TRIS used on children’s pajamas; indemnifications; MFA (Multifiber Arrangement); correspondence with various
textile manufacturers including multiple letters from Roger Milliken of
Milliken Industries,
BE003-15 Transportation (2.4 ft; boxes 44-50)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to the Reagan
Administration’s program to aid the US auto industry;
airbags; auto imports; auto industry relief legislation and actions;
Conrail/Amtrak; shipping industry; Chrysler; trucking industry; deregulation;
airlines; auto
summit; Clean Air Act; Cabinet Council Working Group on
the Auto Industry; legislation requiring “local content” in automobile
manufacturing; Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982; Interstate Commerce
Commission; GM-Toyota joint venture; Surface Transportation Assistance Act;
inland coastal tug and barge industry; maritime industry; Teamsters; Lee
Iacocca; Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard (CAFE); United Auto Workers
(UAW); Ford; and the UAW-GM Saturn plant agreement.
BE004 National Economy (14.1 ft; boxes 51-86)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to statistical information re the economy; economic bill of rights;
FCC access charges; regional economies; Catholic Bishop’s pastoral letter on
the economy; Department of Commerce economic bill of rights; FCC
telecommunication access charges; regional economies; Department of Commerce
economic roundup reports; CEA briefings for the President; strategic planning
for budgeting; budget forecasting and assumptions; polling data; Department of
Commerce Report from Business;
economic forecasting; talking points re the economy; and timing of press
releases of economic indicator data.
This category also contains the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Friday Economic and Financial Reports. These weekly reports
contained a wide range of domestic and international economic topics and
included data on recent economic indicators and quarterly Gross National
Product (GNP) figures. The reports began in 1985 and continued until the end of
the administration. The staff of the OMB
Office of Economic Policy wrote these reports for the Director of OMB and
selected White House staff. A weekly
report might include such diverse topics as monetary policy, Lesser Developed
Countries (LDC) debt, Japanese capital flows; housing starts, interest
differentials, and Ravi Batra
BE004-01 Cost of Living (0.6 ft; boxes 86-87)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics; Producer Price Index (PPI)
statistics; general public and children’s letters re cost of living; leading
indicators; Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA); COLA freeze; resale price
maintenance; industrial production; GNP; GNP deflator; and price freezing.
BE004-02 Inflation
(0.5 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to general public and children’s letters re inflation; talking points
on inflation; and business perspectives on inflation.
BE004-03 National Income - Product Data (0.5 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to GNP statistics and productivity studies.
BE004-04 Recessions - Depressions (1.2 ft; boxes 91-94)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to enterprise zones and the Caribbean Basin Initiative.
BE005 Patents - Inventions - Copyrights -
Trademarks (2.2. ft; boxes 94-99)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to patent applications; proposals for government testing of
inventions; government patent policy; trade-mark counterfeiting; intellectual
property rights; first sale doctrine re video recordings; Patent Cooperation
Treaty; Uniform Patent Procedures Act of 1983; Patent Law Amendments Act of
1984;Canadian pharmaceutical licensing; executive order “Uniform Treatment of
Federally Funded Inventions;” semi-conductor patent infringement; and Berne
Convention Implementation Act of 1988.
BE006 Small Business 4 ft;
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to public correspondence about small business; Small Business
Administration (SBA) 8(a) program, including termination or graduation from the
8(a) program; Cabinet Council on Trade Working Group on Small Business Policy;
Small Business Innovation and Development Act of 1982; minority business
enterprise; presidential statement on minority business enterprise; Small
Business Secondary Market Improvement Act of 1984; Small Business and Federal
Procurement Competition Enhancement Act of 1984; Equal Access to Justice Act;
SBA pilot programs; and amended SBA regulations re 8(a) and 7(j) programs.