Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow the committee's recommendation, he says, "would be both unwise and impractical." Just that. And why? Because it would "reverse the President's basic policy." But it is exactly that "basic policy" and its applications that were the object of the committee's investigation and report...
Congress' most serious job last week was tackled by a joint committee on the Wages & Hours Bill. The conferees agreed tentatively on a basic 25? minimum wage, then plunged into the difficult job of writing a compromise bill that would suit both houses. Meanwhile...
Producers of other commodities seem to have developed similarly sensitive reflexes since Depression I when business took its time about shutting up shop. In London last week the International Rubber Regulation Committee cut the third quarter export quota to 45% of basic allowances. Setting of the new quota, lowest since the Committee was formed, halted an abrupt decline in prices-19.7? a Ib. down to 11.3? since last year. Also the International Tin Committee ordered tin exports cut from 55% to 45% of standard tonnages. In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace said he would soon reduce sugar quotas...
Even should the public find A. T. C. and DuMont reception to their liking, three engineering obstacles stand in the way of regular U. S. television service, 1) Present television standards are tentative. Improvements might bring standards that would make current equipment obsolete. 2) The entire basic mechanism of television might be changed. 3) Either the effective range of television's video wave must be lengthened beyond the present so-mile radius or the band of wave lengths needed for a television station must be reduced radically to solve the problem of wavelength congestion...
...made physical education compulsory for Freshmen and started routine physical examinations. Offices of the department were then in Sever Hall, but with the appointment of Dr. Alfred Worcester in 1924, Wadsworth House became the department's headquarters, and two branch offices were set up. Dr. Worcester inaugurated such basic operations of the department as the Employees' Clinic, as well as the Dental and Eye Clinics...