Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Kissam Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and...
The Library will put up only the few hundred dollars needed for materials. WPA will pay Edward Laning and his three assistants $23.86 a week. He will paint in oil on canvas. When the paintings are pasted up on the panels in about a year the Library will also repair...
When the New Deal was really new, Franklin Roosevelt announced early and often that one of his aims was to legislate a floor under wages, a ceiling over work hours. While he was trying to make good with NRA, and losing to the U. S. Supreme Court, another New Dealer...
In addition, Mr. Hopkins removed WPA's $1,000-a-year ceiling for Northern and Western white-collar workers.
Actually, the floor and the ceiling would not move toward each other with this progressive precision. From the outset they would be subject to change.