Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 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...
Andrews Over Industry. Assigned to fit U. S. industry to this jacket is Wages & Hours Administrator Elmer F. Andrews, a deceptively mild man who as New York State Commissioner of Industry learned to slap with a gloved hand. On the fifth floor of the Labor Department Building in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews labored at his prodigious task with less than 100 helpers...
...contempt shown by the Dionnes for the story of Five of a Kind is by no means inexcusable. The cinema struggle to fit such curiosities into a plausible narrative always includes Jean Hersholt, as Dr. Luke, and John Qualen in a somewhat libelous interpretation of the squintuplets' father. Five of a Kind winds this amorphous group into a tangled web of rivalry and romance between two ill-mannered newspaper and radio commentators (Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero). Best shot: all five Dionnes sneering at kindly Actor Hersholt...
TIME'S crisp new cover and crisp new captions fit TIME'S crisp contents perfectly. Congratulations...
...those who like the sweet little quaverings of Bobby Breen (and it stands to reason that there are some), "Breaking the Ice" serves up a home-cooked dish with Mennonites, ice-skating extravaganzas, and eucalyptus trees in Pennsylvania. Most people will prefer Donald Duck's current fit...