Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Senate and House hoppers went identical bills amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, lifting its 40?minimum hourly wage to 65? (and to 75?after two years). The work week would drop to 40 hours when 75? was reached. Industry committees, under special circumstances, could drive basic pay rates upward even faster...
Beyond its political functions the League served many purposes which the new organization must encompass, supervising such international concerns as health, welfare, education, drugs, slavery and intellectual cooperation. The choice of which. to drop, which to continue and how to make the transfer was one of the commission's big jobs...
...this time they could not spread the job evenly over a network of eastern roads. The enormous load had to be carried by the seven thin western lines which finger out from the midwest, snake through the high, twisting passes of the Rockies and drop down from the high sierra to the key ports of the West Coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland...
Weegee now makes about $4,000 a year, and that more than keeps him in cigars. He has no other expensive habits. He sees an occasional movie, likes to drop into Sammy's bar on the Bowery once in a while. Otherwise, the money just accumulates, and Weegee stuffs it away here & there. Recently a couple of photographers searched his car, found $1,500. They bought him some war bonds...
Like a man taking his first parachute jump, U.S. business had dreaded to step off into reconversion. But last week the National City Bank of New York said that the drop in production had been unexciting, the landing surprisingly easy. In its monthly letter the bank rosily reported...