Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal Association, had addressed the gathering. Never before had the union boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...
Bushy-maned President John Llewellyn Lewis made a graceful bow to the "partnership" between Labor, Capital and Government. He told his men that, although he would ask for a 30-hour week (coal code maximum: 40 hr.) and higher pay when new labor contracts are discussed with bituminous operators in Washington Feb. 12, the miners would be "in a mood of cooperation, conciliation and constructive contribution...
...footed up to a grand deficit of $43,724,000. Even so, the Steel directors decided to continue the 50? quarterly preferred payments. The New Deal, so far, has not been an unmixed blessing to the steel industry. "Due to the requirements of the steel code," declared U. S. Steel Chairman Taylor last week, "wages in the fourth quarter . . . averaged an increase of about 24% over the rates prevailing prior [to the code]." Although U. S. Steel was operating at less than one-third of capacity in the last three months, there were 190,000 people on the payroll-about...
While the new engraving code has resulted in a considerable rise in the cost of engraving the book, that loss has been more than offset by a cut in the printing estimate, with the result that expenses will be no more than those for the 1933 Album...
...which about $450,000 will go for telegraph bills, most of the rest to pay some 1,000 employes. At more than 200 stations in the U. S., Canada, Alaska, the West Indies, notations are made twice daily of pressure, precipitation, wind, temperature. The results are wired in code to Washington, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans, where forecasts are made. The Bureau insists that these forecasts are 90% accurate, complacently notes that gibes to the contrary are dwindling...