Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales.* As in three other States, it sanctioned public housing corporations as R. F. C. borrowers for slum clearance. Also, following a nation-wide trend, it passed a new alimony code and the smallest appropriation bill in a decade...
Into Line. First to submit a model code was the cotton textile industry, through a committee said to represent two-thirds of the textile millers. Pending approval in public hearing June 27, the code provides a minimum wage of $10 a week in southern mills. $11 in the north, a 44-hr, week, and acknowledgement of employes' right to collective bargaining. The coal men in Chicago were preparing a code. The American Petroleum Institute was also doing spadework in Chicago, while to Washington the independents sent their own recommendations. At Bloomfield, Ind., 30 Indiana limestone producers agreed...
...regulatory code in the copper business will have to allow for: 1) a wide range of production costs between U. S. refineries; 2) new sources of cheap foreign copper, against which the Administration may not want to erect a higher tariff wall...
Last week the school board was hailed into court. A taxpayers' association was seeking to oust six of its seven members on charges of financial irregularities, including failure to advertise for bids, violation of the school code, contracting illegally for teachers. Dull and petty were the dealings disclosed. But a passage in Michael Wolohowicz's testimony made news. All he knew about his job as treasurer was that he signed checks, carried money to and from the bank. He could neither read nor write-or, at least, very little. Said he, at the quiz: "I have to talk...
License. To bring balky industries into line the President can clamp a licensing system down on them. By canceling a license he may put one concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year instead of two. Last week many a manufacturer was threatening to shut up shop altogether rather than submit to this gun-at-head provision...