Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominate and have their will over the weaker." Some specific accusations of code evils: Most hotels and many contractors use Grade B, slightly damaged plumbing fixtures, a large part of small manufacturers' output. Under the plumbing fixture code, dominated by three leading companies. Grade B products can now be sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged...
...wave of buying broke over the copper market fortnight ago. In three consecutive trading days 41,000 tons were sold, equivalent to the output of all U.S. mines for two months at current production. Reason: domestic producers had notified the sales clearing agent of the Copper Code Authority that they were about to raise the price of copper from 8½? to 9? per Ib. Last week as the new price went into effect, sales slumped off considerably. Not in three years had coppermen been able to get 9?. When President Roosevelt took office they could get barely...
...armies crave the quick-burning carbohydrates of candy which their governments did not supply. After the War candy became a $400,000,000 industry, with only 47 others ahead of it in size and importance. Last week the National Confectioners Association, reshuffled by Depression and reunited by an NRA code, met in convention in Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were 28% better than in 1933. U. S. citizens were again eating an average of a pound of candy apiece every month. Candyman William F. Heide gloated, "The time when people were content...
...hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week's issue in the long drawn-out warfare of the American Newspaper Publishers Association against NRA. When the Press Code was drawn up last winter the publishers haggled over three points: 1) They wanted no possible licensing of newspapers.* 2) They wanted editorial workers getting $35 per week or more classified as "professional men," and hence outside the minimum work week requirements. 3) They wanted no Child Labor nonsense to interfere...
...vital function. A Harvard graduating class is in a more favorable position than many other young men in the country today to score heavily. Certainly there are more chances today to direct one's self into constructive channels, but keeping off the mudbanks on either side requires a code of one's own, which can be acquired only through severe testing. So the members of the Class of 1934 should keep their eyes on the things which they wish to accomplish, making use of practical methods to obtain them, and being ever ready to modify or change those ends...