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Word: decently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painted the picture of the years since 1933, when Labor gained "the untrammeled right, not privilege, to organize and to bargain collectively"; when laws established fair minimum wages, decent maximum hours, outlawed child labor, set up machinery for the mediation of labor disputes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Campaign's Beginning | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...housing for workers in defense industries. Near the war's end the emergency U. S. Housing Corp. calculated a shortage of adequate shelter for 292.000 workers. Aircraft, steel, other companies reported that they could have increased efficiency, upped production 20% or more, simply by enough decent houses to keep workers from wandering elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROCUREMENT: Defense Housing | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...ever occur to these Congressmen that a decent rate of pay for the man that does the dying and fighting would indicate the calibre of democracy we are defending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...only touch of civilization in the school was a plea for tidiness. "Don't leave dead Germans lying in a mess in the middle of a road," advised an instructor. "Give them a decent burial in a ditch and cover up the blood so the next man will not get suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Kill a Sentry | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...that Texas, whose railroad taxes were 50% lower than Colorado's, might well up F. W. & D. C.'s tax bill to the point where the anticipated operations saving would disappear. "You, Mr. Budd," cried Amon Carter, "have cast the die, with utter contempt for fair and decent treatment of both your faithful employes and old customers. We use the word 'old' advisedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Southwestern Hospitality | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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