Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 25,000 cotton mill workers. These advances marked the first action by the cotton manufacturing interests to meet the higher wage levels set by the woolen mills throughout all the northern textile centers. When the general advance in wages in New England is completed it will affect about 250,000 workers...
States Employment Service that unemployment has been reduced to nor- mal. February is a month during which there is usually a seasonal de- cline in employment on account of weather conditions which affect outdoor operations. But this year more workers were on the payrolls in February than in January...
...case which it is estimated will ultimately involve close to $100,000,000 and will certainly affect tremendously the housing situation in New York City was decided by Mr. Justice Tierney of the State Supreme Court...
...budget for military expenditure, General Kenichi Oshima, addressing the House of Peers, said that it was "the height of folly to imagine that the cutting of armaments would ensure peace. World peace is best maintained when nations are armed to the hilt! " His explosion will not, however, affect the departmental estimates...
...ambassador like the late Walter Hines Page is more valuable in promoting friendly relations than any number of treaties. The act of respect which the British people are paying him, by placing a tablet to his memory in Westminster, suggests how much the highest type of diplomacy can affect the good feelings of one nation toward another. The whole foreign service should be kept a the same level; no political favoritism should interfere with choosing the best-fitted man for any post...