Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With pride the cotton textile industry points to itself as the biggest single industry in the U. S., because it employs more workers than any other. With equal pride NRA points to it as the first industry to take a code, the first to abolish child labor, cut hours, raise wages. So neither the industry nor the Administration could last week read with equanimity reports that every single employe of the U. S.'s biggest industry would soon be without a job as the result of a "national cotton textile strike," called by the United Textile Workers of America, affiliate...
Four days later Mr. Sloan had an even bigger project afoot. One of the better things desired by many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft...
Organization. James Andrew Moffett, scion of an old family that had made its millions with Rockefeller in oil, proved his love for the New Deal last year by quitting as vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey to back a more vigorous oil code than President Walter Teagle favored. For that he was rewarded with a job on the Planning & Coordinating Board of the Petroleum Industry, later got another job with Standard Oil of Cali fornia. This July President Roosevelt sat him down to organize the housing drive...
Another innovation by Admiral von Levetzow abolished Berlin traffic lights "because they slow up traffic." Last week Leader Hitler was reported to be so favorably impressed by Admiral von Levetzow's reforms that he had made them the basis for a new State Traffic Code, effective Oct. 1, to "unify traffic regulations throughout Germany." To make the Fatherland traffic-conscious in advance of the new decree, thundering presses produced truckloads of pamphlets entitled Directions for Pedestrians...
...gravestones. Around & around the Hall walked dozens of joking, back-slapping businessmen who eyed each granite block with official pride. They tramped into a private dining room, sat down to a banquet at which no one made a speech. For five days they haggled over code chiselers, discussed new ideas on designs, talked about cashing in on their backlog. Gravestone sellers all, members of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, they wound up their annual convention in the hotel taproom and went home with schemes for carving out more business from the living and the dead...