1958 - Retail, Trade

Retail, Trade

France's president Charles de Gaulle pushes through a law requiring suppliers to sell at the same price to all retailers and retailers to end price discrimination.

Diamond dealer Harry Winston, now 64, donates the 44.5-carat Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C., sending it by registered mail as he sends all his jewelry (see 1932; 1960).