Word: contains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before it passed the bill the Senate did the beet sugar industry one last favor. The House bill provided that crop restriction agreements with beet producers "may contain provisions which will eliminate child labor and fix minimum wages for workers." Notable was this provision, for beet growing requires so much hand labor (hoeing, thinning out. pulling) that any beet farmer who wants to cultivate more than four or five acres must hire the cheapest labor-Mexicans and their wives and children-under conditions which scandalize reformers. The Senate struck out the provision for minimum wages and the "elimination" of child...
Near suburban Barbizon, spiritual home of the world's greatest landscape painters, Mayor Roger could contain himself no longer last week. The village plumber had been to the Villa Ker Monique to repair pipes. He had found it barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by two fierce watchdogs. He had been locked in the room in which he worked. The village postman added the sinister fact that no mail ever came to Ker Monique. A courier on a motorcycle came there every day from Paris. With Stavisky, international spy rings, and rumors of brewing civil wars to inflame French...
...market, with widely varying formulas, but the facts about them are simple. Prime fact is that all are either harmful, worthless or both. Most are simply laxatives, for it is possible to reduce weight by hurrying food through the system before it can be properly digested. Some compounds contain thyroid extract which, by speeding metabolism, does reduce weight but with much possible harm...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...
...That was the fat and juicy stake for which hungry Britons scrabbled last week. Not until April 17 will the 1934-35 budget be announced and last week canny Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain would let out not one word of what it will contain. Meanwhile taxpayers, unemployed, the Army, the Navy, the air force all sought to show why they were most fitted to take care of the money...