Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial rocks by the fair-weather crew of heirs and advisers who had steered it since the death in 1932 of scroogy old Captain Robert Dollar, the round-the-world Dollar Steamship Line was taken in tow last August by the Maritime Commission. Of the $7,000,000 in subsidy and repair and working-capital loans then allotted, $4,000,000 was last week available, $2,000,000 of it earmarked for bringing the fleet up to snuff...
...Manhattan, Douglas G. Hertz, Rockleigh, N. J. sportsman, submitted a bid of $850,000 to the City of New York for the sale of its Tombs Prison. If his bid is accepted, he plans to use it during the World's Fair as a museum of famed crimes and criminals; afterwards, to turn it into an indoor polo field...
...workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
Lowell immediately kicked out, but the wind held the ball back. On the kick, Lowell was penalized for trying to tackle the safety man, who had signaled a fair catch. This brought the ball to the Lowell one yard stripe. A penalty on Kirkland put it back to the nine. Then Roy Moore broke loose on an off-tackle play for the score...