Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawaiian Steamship Co. and new chairman of the employers' strike-born Committee of 43, that he began organizing a permanent employers' federation to undertake collective bargaining and fight the collective labor battle of bosses on as wide a front as C.I.O. or A. F. of L. can cover for labor...
...when the "hot" car rolled across San Francisco's labor scene, it also aroused other employers. The Retailers' Council, which had been negotiating a new contract with A. F. of L.'s Retail Department Store Employes Union to cover 35 stores, flatly balked at the union's three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls...
...tenth annual National Air Races in Cleveland last week end for prizes handsome enough to cover the cost of a racing plane and a decent burial, the speed-mad fringe of U. S. aviation whistled up a great sound and fury. When it was all over, the pockets of Cleveland Promoters Cliff and Phil Henderson were again lined, only one flier had been killed,† and the whinny of ships racing against borrowed time had proved that aviation still has plenty of broncos...
...subjects range from accountancy to zoology. They are supposed to cover a high-school and college education. National Educational Alliance's catholic curriculum includes such subjects as art, archeology, biology, literature, writing, interior decorating, photography, psychology, languages, philosophy. There are no courses in handcrafts or trades, because the alliance believes enough schools and publications already teach these...
...Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim,* founder of the A.R.R.L. and until his death in 1936 its president, the relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical...