Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unusually heavy snowfall Wednesday night has assured excellent opportunities for winter sport throughout New England. All through New Hampshire and western Massachusetts snow lies from 14 to 40 1-2 inches deep. Indications of fair weather for this weekend will make conditions ideal for skiing and snowshoeing. The Boston and Maine Snow Train runs to Greenfield. New Hampshire on Sunday. Other easily accessible places with deep snow are North Conway, Mt. Washington and Pinkham Notch...
...Eastern Intercollegiate League last year, the Harvard basketball team seems at last to have won at least a small place on the map. With the season only half over, the team has won four games, one more than the total number of victories gained last year, and bids fair to continue if not to increase its winning ratio...
...decision at least admonishes Congress that it has a duty to legislate and not abdicate. The logic of the decision would seem clearly to include the codes of so-called fair competition. Let me give you an illustration. A man writes me he wanted to start an ice plant. The community wanted him to start an ice plant. The Code Authority issued an order that he could not start an ice plant. One of the parties issuing the order was a man who had an ice plant in the same town. If the man violates this order he is sent...
...argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting in the sale of commodities produced, any more than a fixed price of material or other element of cost would prevent it. Destructive competition at the expense of employes is lessened...
Producer Warner defended himself thus: "We have done nothing but conduct our business in a fair and honest manner. . . . We leased two other theatres in St. Louis suitable for first-run exhibition, and, in the ordinary course of business, solicited and acquired the right to exhibit the product of Paramount and RKO in addition to our own in these theatres...