Word: doling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scandalous!" stormed peppery Scotch Conservative Major Walter Elliot Elliot, "Why, the dole is already more than wages in some depressed trades...
...wages fall below the dole," roared Clydeside Leader Jim Maxton, "we shall know how to raise wages...
...Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25,000 for the race. It involves stops at Tokyo, Honolulu and on the Pacific Coast...
...Pilots. Martin Jensen, second prize Dole Pacific flyer, and Bartlett Stephens, acting superintendent of the San Francisco Municipal Airport, started a short hop at San Francisco. Down the runway roared their plane. She crow hopped along, got up in the air, fell off on a wing. Jensen, scared, hauled her back to level. He remarked gently on his friend's handling of the ship. Stephens, aggrieved, had been thinking the same thing. Each had thought the other was piloting...
Ministress of Labor Margaret ("Saint Maggie'') Bondfield provoked the crisis by refusing a Left Laborite demand to add ?50,000 ($250,000) to the dole under the Government's Unemployment Relief Bill (TIME, Nov. 25). Then upon hobnailed feet rose sturdy John Wheately, a Scotsman from the industrial Clydeside slums of Glasgow, five years ago Minister of Health in the first MacDonald Cabinet...