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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Wages & Hours had received 45,000 inquiries from employers and workers who wanted to know whether they come under the standards, whether the U. S. has another NRA. Mr. Andrews made it clear that: 1) the Act resembles NRA in purpose, is wholly different in method. Chief difference: NRA standards were established and applied (with Federal supervision) by industry Code Authorities, whereas the bases for Wage & Hour standards are written into the statute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Scattered Cats | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...making his demands-was President Roosevelt. Mr. John Cudahy, the U. S. Minister to Eire, merely dropped around in Dublin to present an official White House invitation to Prime Minister de Valera to visit the U. S. next spring. Since King George and Queen Elizabeth have not yet made clear whether they will extend their visit to Canada next spring to include the U. S., the White House invitation at Dublin created a stir among courtiers at Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Like the Slovaks? | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Excess bank reserves climbed to $3,270,000,000, next-to-highest total on record. In short, the supply of money had never been so plentiful. And when bank clearings reached a 1938 peak and bank debits rose a whopping $1,000,000,000 in the last two weeks, it was clear that the public was using that money supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Brisk | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Last summer, as talk of rewriting Section 77 grew, ICC put on the pressure. Western Pacific was the fourth Class I railroad shoved through the wringer in four months.* Giving a clear indication of its temper, ICC last week declared: "If . . . reorganization is to be successful, the capital structure of the reorganized company must be realistically related to its actual earning power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Realistic Relation | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...shade its prices some $4 a ton, lowering cold-rolled sheets to $62 compared with $73 last spring. When an independent then cut the price another $2, Philip Murray was not the only steel man to fret. With the industry working at only 53% of capacity, it was clear that such price-cutting, if continued, must mean heavy losses, possible wage cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Undeclared Truce | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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