Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Senate and House hoppers went identical bills amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, lifting its 40?minimum hourly wage to 65? (and to 75?after two years). The work week would drop to 40 hours when 75? was reached. Industry committees, under special circumstances, could drive basic pay rates upward even faster...
...McCarran Act...
...Revolution and the Civil War, when members of Christian groups like the Quakers, Mennonites and Brethren, in the belief that Christ commanded Christians not to kill, refused to fight in armies. In World War II the attitude toward C.O.s and their treatment has been enlightened. The Selective Service Act makes only two conditions for conscientious objection: 1) the C.O. must be opposed to "participation in war in any form"; 2) his scruples must come from "religious training and belief...
...well he does the job depends on how-well he can make the confused Surplus Property Act of 1944 work. When it was passed, it was loudly damned as unworkable. Retiring Board Chairman Guy M. Gillette did little to take the curse off, laid down no clear-cut policy to sell the billions to come. To get rid of it, Symington will need to flavor caution (to keep property out of the hands of fly-by-night promoters), with shrewd sales promotion. He will have to find new uses for old products...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...