Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trends toward the organization of large medical and health centres, sickness insurance and possibly state medicine," observed Isabel Maitland Stewart, Columbia University's professor of nursing education, "probably mean fewer free-lance nurses and more organizations in groups, fewer de luxe nurses catering to the wealthy and more serving the needs of the common people, fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate...
...phonograph tune, set him up as historic Station KDKA. Radio makers began to multiply like summer flies. Most of them were soon swatted by the proverbial vicissitudes of their industry. Relatively few of the early breed even survived for the cream-jugs of the late 1920's. Still fewer continued to buzz right through Depression...
...Deal but economics and weather saved the potato farmers' shirts. Having taken it on the chin so badly in 1935, growers naturally planted fewer potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...
...forth coming consolidations of railway terminals and other facilities. When Joseph B. Eastman became Federal Coordinator of Transportation in 1933, the Emergency Transportation Act which created that post urged that he encourage consolidations for economy, but at the same time practically prevented them by forbidding the railroads to employ fewer men after such mergers than they employed in May 1933. This froze the situation so that virtually no railroad consolidation has been effected at all. All Coordinator Eastman could do was to offer suggestions, which usually tended in the direction of eventual Government management of U. S. railroads...
...Opposed by the Administration, the amendment finally failed. Last week the new bill's administration managers promptly accepted a prevailing wage amendment offered by Massachusetts' Connery, let it be voted through after five minutes' discussion. Understanding was that, at prevailing hourly rates. WPA employes would work fewer hours for the same total pay. Explanation of this magnanimous campaign-year gesture toward Labor was that in his secret testimony before the Appropriations Committee, revealed last week, Harry Hopkins had told Congressmen that WPA was already paying prevailing wages almost everywhere in the land. Average WPA pay, he disclosed...