Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with your kind reference to my study of church attendance on p. 29 of TIME for July 2, may I, in fairness to the nation's churches, add as follows...
...print, you know, is what is bought by the demon space-buyers of the agencies and the fat has been none too plentiful of late years. Let me hasten to add, too, that few weeklies in the Northwest have printed much of what is commonly called "sore-toe" advertising, for the very excellent reason that little such space has been offered. Once a weekly newspaper standby, this type of advertising still appears in reduced volume, but within the columns of the "patent insides" [i. e. syndicated pages]. Many a publisher uses it either because of laziness, local news scarcity...
These industries were hardly caviar to the general. He ordered them to : 1) complete their proposed codes in 15 days; or 2) join up with allied industries already under codes; or 3 ) accept a new basic code containing general labor and hour provisions to which they might later add trade-practice requirements...
Since their last meeting as members of the Association of Railway Executives, grave matters had arisen. The Railway Pension Bill had been passed, pay cuts had been restored. They listened in silence while committees reported that payments under the pension bill would add $66,000,000 to their operating costs, the restoration of pay cuts on July 1 another $156,000,000, and increases in materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten...
...annually, of which $3,000,000,000 is from freight, $1,000,000,000 from passengers. A 10% freight rate increase would bring in $300,000,000 annually. But the railway executives well knew as they rolled home in Pullman drawing rooms last week, that to add 10% to the freight charges on lightweight commodities for short hauls would only drive even more business into the hands of truck and steamship competitors. Consequently they were planning a graduated increase, not permitting rates of any one commodity to he upped more than...