Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. Four thousand underlings post over land and sea or sit at desks doing their bidding. Day by day NIRB turns out reams of decisions and orders which, for affected industries, have all the authority of substantive law. In every city, town and hamlet NRA's viceroys, the code authorities, govern as best they can. The 1,400 mills of the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers, which for years had known no law but strife, now all obey one law in regard to hours, wages, production. To other industries, such as automobiles, the change may make...
...Their Code renewed, motormakers turned in a production figure for January 1935 of 306,000 cars and trucks-87% above the same month last year and a January figure surpassed only twice (1926, 1929) in history...
Humiliated by these elections, the A. F. of L. roared its protest when President Roosevelt renewed the Automobile Code, extending it to the legal date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...
...Queried by the U. S. State Department in 1930, the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo replied: "There are no laws in Japan which relate specifically to piracy. Acts of piracy are prosecuted under the appropriate section of the criminal code, persons committing acts of piracy generally being prosecuted as robbers, or burglars, or murderers...
...Phelps Dodge announced that it had acquired a block of stock in United Verde Copper Co. of Jerome, Ariz. from the heirs of Montana's late copper-mining Senator William A. Clark who owned control of the company. United Verde's sales-quota under the copper code is based on an annual capacity of 68,000 tons against Phelps Dodge's 168,000 tons...