Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election was held in the plant and a company union set up. The NRA Compliance Board finally ordered another vote on: i) a modified com-pany union plan, or 2) joining the A. F. of L. union. The election, set for last week, was postponed on NRA orders to allow General Johnson to decide whether some 800 ousted strikers should be permitted to present credentials and vote. In spite of the postponement order another election was held last week in the plant and the votes counted by certified public accountants. The vote was 3,152 for the company union...
...airplane carrier, 99,200 tons of destroyers (65), 35-530 tons of submarines (30). Aircraft: a number "commensurate with a Treaty navy." Author of the bill was Georgia's Carl Vinson. Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Washington's two Senators tacked on amendments, one to allow Pacific Coast shipyards to bid on the new ships with transportation costs considered, the other to build 25% of the airplanes in government plants. Great Britain- The biggest Navy budget since 1928 was presented to the House of Commons by Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty...
...companies are the only concerns that can carry the mail successfully, and why the Army has failed so utterly in its attempt to transport the mail," said George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "It was perfectly natural to allow only the large concerns to bid for the contracts at the time they were issued, and I cannot understand why so many people are today complaining about this action...
...Aviation has been progressing at tremendous strides, and any plane that was built was sure to about of date in six months. Only a rich company could keep pace with the changes in aviation and it would have been folly to allow small companies to offer their bids. Any man would have been able to buy a few second had planes and submit a bid which would have been lower than those of the larger concerns, but it is certain that the service, dependability, and safety of the mail transportation would have been endangered to a serious extent. Therefore, only...
...Army had been properly trained and furnished with the proper equipment, it should have been able to carry the mail far better than it has. After all!" Mr. Doriot exclaimed, "long bombing and observation fights should have been of sufficient training to the flyers to allow them to transport the mail successfully, and even bad weather is no excuse for the many mishaps which have occurred, for a war would certainly demand flying in bad weather...