Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This beautiful bayonet may help enforcement, but unfortunately it is not clear in many cases what constitutes a violation of the Act. The law says: "No provision of this Act shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this Act. . . ." If an employer who previously paid $20 or 40? an hour for a 50-hour week cuts his nominal hourly rate to 38?, and pays $20.14 for 50 hours (including the six overtime hours at 1½ times 38?) he may violate...
...mission was to find a market abroad for excess citrus fruits and other crops, particularly wheat (of which the Government announced it would sell 100,000,000 bushels abroad by July, has thus far succeeded in selling only 39,000,000). Few people either here or in Europe would thank him for his trouble, because sales at whatever price he could get might depress both domestic and international farm prices...
What Francis Wilcox hoped to do abroad, Henry Wallace hoped to do right at home. About six weeks ago Secretary Wallace first promulgated his domestic "two-price plan." It amounts to dumping surpluses at home instead of abroad- buying excess commodities from farmers at market price, then selling them at cut prices to needy U. S. citizens, with the Government footing the loss...
...that when human heads were exposed to X-rays, a temporary improvement in hearing frequently occurred. Dr. Culler confirmed and explained this phenomenon. Studying X-rayed dogs, he found that the irradiation weakened the pituitary control of the pancreas, which thereupon released more insulin in the blood. The insulin excess lowered the blood's sugar content, which in turn lowered the density and viscosity of the fluids in the hearing mechanism of the inner ear. The ear thereby became more susceptible to sound vibrations...
...will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none of Gilbert & Sullivan's crushing dead-pan mockery of pomp & circumstance. Only Actor Bruce knows the secret, plays Gilbert with a polished griffness that the old boy himself would have acknowledged with a snort of delight...