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...beet producers "may contain provisions which will eliminate child labor and fix minimum wages for workers." Notable was this provision, for beet growing requires so much hand labor (hoeing, thinning out. pulling) that any beet farmer who wants to cultivate more than four or five acres must hire the cheapest labor-Mexicans and their wives and children-under conditions which scandalize reformers. The Senate struck out the provision for minimum wages and the "elimination" of child labor, substituting merely the power to "limit or regulate child labor...
Other women were anxious to learn how to make artificial flowers and hooked rugs, how to mount butterflies, leaves and flowers. Men flocked to boat-building and carpentry displays. Intellectuals shouted answers at a beauteous young woman who read questions from a book. And everyone liked soap-carving, cheapest hobby in the show...
...subsided, the rosy mists which surrounded Repeal are drifting away revealing the highly unpleasant fact that liquor prices are exorbitantly high and in some cases prohibitive. Despite the unctuous announcement of the distillers that they would have an abundance of whiskey on the market at $1.50 a quart, the cheapest blended whiskey obtainable costs $2.75 and the uncut variety runs from $5.00 to $8.00. Even more outrageous than the prices of hard liquors are those charged for wine. Domestic wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap at $3.00; served in a hotel dining...
...Great Britain prepares "retaliation measures" against the "cheapest dollar in sixty years," Pollux and I are dismayed by the mad scramble of the Nations to give their worldly goods each to the other. The dollar drops in terms of pounds, therefore pounds can buy more dollars, therefore pounds can buy more American products, therefore pounds must not be allowed to buy more American products, because more American products might choke a starving England with the necessities of life...
...Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...