Word: averting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care if a strike were called, for many millmen felt that an involuntary shut-down would avert overproduction. To Mr. Sloan the threat of a strike was not so much a grievous danger as just one more hardship to be borne as the price of pioneering...
...Inevitably I cannot please everyone. I am not a dictator. I am a simple citizen who loves Liberty and who has the utmost confidence in your wisdom and your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold...
...were so low that in hotels and apartment houses hot water was curtailed. Many a filling station hung out the NO GAS sign. One ferry was converted to burn wood. But nonunion laborers continued to load cargoes, and Seattle had hopes that the conservative wing of its unionists would avert a complete walkout...
Under such conditions Washington's polite formula of a three-man board to mediate a strike was not enough last week to avert several funerals in San Francisco. From early May, when 12,000 unionized longshoremen struck on the Pacific Coast, a grim state of siege has prevailed in all Pacific ports north of Los Angeles...
...crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS WOULD ENLIST ALL FAITHS-Need for Prompt Action to Avert Drastic Penalties Upon Picture Industry Urged in East-Real Danger...