Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This beautiful bayonet may help enforcement, but unfortunately it is not clear in many cases what constitutes a violation of the Act. The law says: "No provision of this Act shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this Act. . . ." If an employer who previously paid $20 or 40? an hour for a 50-hour week cuts his nominal hourly rate to 38?, and pays $20.14 for 50 hours (including the six overtime hours at 1½ times 38?) he may violate...
Just now Major Fletcher's "staff" consists chiefly of the workers who come under the Act. A. F. of L. and C. I. O. have set up offices in Washington to clear complaints, take utmost advantage of the fact that organized employes are in a better position than unorganized workers to make their employers toe the line...
Zigzag Progress. The right-hand-men of Joseph Stalin have seldom known what his left-hand-men were doing, and vice versa, but the Dictator has been the clear-headed master of Communist Parties all over the world since he became the master of Russia. His famed "zigzag methods." much criticized in private by Communists, have an inner consistency; i.e. he is out to see that Stalin and Russia come out as nearly on top as possible...
...Years Under the Earth makes it clear that speleology is no job for a claustrophobe. "Very few tubes are im-passable," declares Casteret, "if one knows how to crawl (there is an art to it) and dares to keep on, come what may. Thanks to his shape, man can stretch out longer and thinner than any animal of his size...
...Reimann and his assistant, Bernard J. Miller, obtained an ovum from a Negro woman in the hospital, placed it in a drop of clear white serum strained from human blood, suspended the drop from a glass slide and placed it under a microscope...