Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Direct labor is only a fraction of the cost of a job. Secretary Ickes' public works, by his own estimate, average $2,132 for every man employed because steel, stone, cement, lumber and other heavy materials have to be bought for such projects. Obviously President Roosevelt would have to cut down on the number of jobs he would be able to give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level...
...Officials in NRA and businessmen fond of NRA devised strange schemes and ingenious devices to get around the Supreme Court's ruling. But by the end of the week one fact was manifest: The Supreme Court had shattered NRA into such fine particles that a new brand of cement would be needed to make them stick together again. NRA wired code authorities that their official status and official existence had ended-both "officials" underlined. Attorney General Cummings announced that the Administration was abandoning 411 NRA cases in the courts...
...Industries with chronic overproduction or a vast number of small-units will miss code discipline the most. The ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...
...lawn and entered the garage, shutting the doors tight behind him. When the motor of his Packard sedan settled down to a quiet hum, he climbed out of the front seat, walked to the rear of the garage. Carefully taking off his hat, he lay down on the cement floor, a foot from the purring exhaust. At seven in the morning the maid found the motor still running. Bowen Tufts was dead...
...prosecute Rettich first under the "Lindbergh Law" for enticing Andino Merola across a State line to his death. But first they expected him to tell something about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened to "Legs" Carella, whose body was found wrapped up in burlap with feet hacked off, gold tooth knocked out, scars sliced away. Most hopeful were they of pinning on the Rettich gang the great...