Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wages and salaries was ordered. In October wages were cut 10% after a 10-15% salary reduction in August, when Big Steel finally decided overhead must come down. The new cut was 15%, making a total reduction of 23.5% in the pay of 44? an hour which was considered basic in 1929. In addition most men are now working on short shifts...
...markets for many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk on the National Raw Silk Exchange. E. Gerli & Co. have a year in which to distribute the silk. They expect to sell about half (the poorer grades) in Japan and the Orient, the better grades in the U. S. and Europe. Because it was understood that henceforth Japan...
...thing which the Forum has not done is to reach any settled conclusions as to the relative value of the fields of history, anthropology, or sociology. In its discussions, however, fundamental questions of ethics, art, and education have been raised. It is in putting these questions, in defining basic issues that the Forum has been of value...
...ignores many relevant facts. It is an outstanding weakness in college instruction that it presents students with masses of facts without showing why the facts are important, without showing to what fundamental problems they are relevant. The Dunster House Forum is an excellent instrument for cantering attention on the basic difficulties of thought...
...picked was Mr. Bishop. His qualifications are long banking associations with the industry (onetime director of Cleveland Trust) and his position (through Continental) as one of the biggest rubber investors. When Continental made its rubber investments it was adhering to its policy of buying only into basic industries. Founder Eaton is believed to have had some ultimate plan of co-operation among the rubber rivals similar to that started last week. In its last annual report Continental valued its rubber investments at five million dollars. ; The largest investment was in Firestone; other holdings were in Goodyear, Goodrich...