Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Hoover presented a report of his non-partisan Commission recommending Congressional action...
...tuberculosis. But Hawaiians preferred to go slow. Said Harry A. Kleugel, head of the Hawaiian Board of Hospitals: "We should be wary of jumping into something new when the present operation is showing results." Five bills were introduced after the Governor's message, but none was for immediate action. One asked for a survey of leprosy in Hawaii and a report to the next session; another asked for more research. The others would make life easier at Kalaupapa by such details as allowing photographs to be sent home (now only scientific pictures...
With a good sense of public relations, G.M. timed its action to coincide with company-wide wage reductions of 2? an hour under its escalator "cost-of-living" contract. (Wage rates are adjusted up or down quarterly, 1? for every 1.14 point change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index.) Said G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson: the markdown was intended to "pass along to consumers the savings resulting from both the downward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain material items...
...Mexican border. A friend reminded John that he had joined Battery A a while before and that he'd better go. "So I did, but I don't really know why. I was never able to have my bunk right or anything. I saw no action...
Then came World War I. J. P. Marquand saw action, rose to the rank of captain, but (though he later recalled it effectively in So Little Time) the war roused in him no Hemingway impulses to write about it. "Of course I got frightened to death on a number of occasions and I saw a lot of people get killed, but I don't think it did very much...