Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producer of a motion picture cannot hope to please everybody any more than a newspaper publisher but he tries just as hard to do so and is as deeply concerned over any just complaint against his product as is the newspaper publisher even though his patrons are world-wide and more difficult to please...
...Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
...White Plains, N. Y., last week a grand jury indicted Westchester Airport Corp. of Armonk, N. Y., as a public nuisance, after months of complaint by residents near the field that dust filled their homes, forced them to keep windows shut tight even in hot weather. Authorities lately closed Atlantic Airways' field near Scarsdale, also upon complaints of residents...
...that the commissioners have greater latitude in arriving at differences in costs of production as a basis for adjusting rates. If a foreign country believes that any of our tariffs are unduly high ... it can present its case to the reorganized Tariff Commission which . . . has the power, if the complaint is justified, to rectify the rates...
Percentages of workers idle are given by the I. L. 0. as: Germany 23.5%, Denmark 19%, Norway 18%, the U. S. 16%, Sweden 16%, England-where there is most complaint about unemployment-11%, Italy .93%, Russia .84% and France, ''where everybody works...