Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farm labor is specifically excluded from wage-and-hour provisions of the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, from minimum wage laws in every state except Wisconsin, and from unemployment insurance in every state but Hawaii...
...week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...
This fall ACT will screen 150,000 high school seniors aspiring to some 250 colleges in 14 states. Results will go to the student, his school, the colleges of his choice. Price per student: $3, half the usual College Board fee. Another difference: the most widely used board test covers ability in English and math; ACT tests ability in English, math, social studies and natural sciences. Ostensibly, ACT is not competing with the board. With all freshmen due to jump from 711,000 this year to 1,267,000 by 1969, both organizations are likely to share ample business...
RATE-TEST CASE that was won by railroads will bring lower rates for freight shipments in competition against truckers. ICC precedent allowing roads to slash paint freight rates was first major test for transportation act to aid ailing railroads...
...indictment said that Guterma and the other defendants offered to act as Trujillo "publicity agents." see that the Mutual Broadcasting System's 450 affiliated stations carried 425 minutes of favorable news a month about Trujillo for 18 months. A week after the deal was made, Guterma was out of his empire and Mutual as the SEC closed in with fraud charges (TIME. Feb. 23). Mutual broadcasts in February are alleged to have contained Dominican propaganda. But with Guterma gone, the puffs stopped...