Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aftermath of the sinking of the gunboat Panay kept news of the business slump off front pages, even blanketed the defeat of the Wages and Hours Bill (see p. p). If the latter was not inconvenient so far as it reassured business, both kinds of news were nonetheless damaging to Administration prestige...
Resolution. Aim of the Neutrality Bill, enacted this year was to keep the U. S. out of situations leading to war by enabling the President to embargo U. S. shipments to belligerents. Since the Kellogg Pact renouncing war, no wars have been declared. To undeclared wars the President can apply the Neutrality Act or not, as he sees fit. The law for which the Panay sinking last week surprisingly supplied momentum in Congress was one which, as an expression of pacifism, made the Neutrality Act look like a speech by Mussolini...
Under the bill a central organization is to be established in the Home Office to plan for evacuation of "target cities," such as London. With the co-operation of local authorities in the vulnerable cities, camp grounds will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid...
When opponents of the bill halfheartedly asserted that it was impossible to remove three or four million people from a large city without causing a panic, a Hoare supporter croaked: "It is easier to do it before they are stretcher cases than afterward." Without a single dissenting voice the bill was passed...
...sales. Guessers were kept busy finding reasons for the unexplained dismissal which surprised Fordling Cowling and shocked his admirers, but those most frequently mentioned were his pronounced independence and the habit formed by some Ford dealers of referring to the Ford distribution system as the "Cowling System." Adaptable Bill Cowling, once president of Ford-owned Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R., was never paid the heroic salary popularly supposed. Henry Ford's sales manager got $35,000 per year and even the bonus in good years seldom brought it close to six figures...