Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After ten laborious days and nights, conferees of the House and Senate brought out at last week's end a compromise on the Wages-&-Hours Bill to put a floor under Labor's pay, a ceiling over its working week.
Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia...
A sequel to Monday's balloon-bursting episode in Lowell House was provided yesterday when a chubby hydrogen filled blimp soared to the ceiling during dinner. Resourceful Bellboys, undismayed by the situation, reached up and grasped a string hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however...
Minkler shot down a big gas balloon which had been hovering on the ceiling of the dining room despite various efforts to capture it since it mysteriously appeared yesterday morning.
That DC-4 may find the actual ceiling of air traffic's enormous room was suggested fortnight ago by Arthur E. Raymond, Douglas' vice president in charge of engineering. He pointed out to the Chamber of Commerce in Washington that there are three good reasons why transcontinental transport...