Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets its 30-mi. error in oölogy, The limestone code was signed neither at Bloomfield nor Bloomington but at Bedford...
...great was the President's haste to put the code into operation that he did not wait for all its rough points to be smoothed out. Still to be settled, for instance, was the tough question of "stretch outs," the practice of making one mill worker tend a larger number of looms as an offset to higher pay. But President Roosevelt could & would not tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will...
...legal tactics were decided upon remained beneath their respective hats. But the President spared no praise in congratulating cotton textile manufacturers on their "faith, courage and patriotism . . . and the example they have given," when, back in the White House Sunday, he approved the first and so far only industrial code to be put through the Recovery Administration's impatient mill...
President Roosevelt last week gave up his Sunday evening to U. S. industry. Pen in hand he approved the cotton textile code, first of its kind under the National Industrial Recovery Act. Because a code cannot take effect until the second Monday after the President's approval, by signing Sunday night Mr. Roosevelt saved a week. The cotton code now goes into effect July 17. The interval is set aside to give the 23% of the industry which did not subscribe to the code time to agree to its provisions, or be forced in by the Government...
...general's helper, Dudley Gates, labored to aid lumbermen with their code, got them to include in it Roosevelt's pet, forest conservation. Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) until he was felled by an acute heart attack. Helper Donald R. Richberg, counsel of the Recovery Administration, was busy stimulating merchants in Manhattan with dire prophecies: "If this adventure should fail . . . it will be the failure of an industrial system. . . . There is only the choice presented between private and public...