Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...count up on our fingers and see just where Harvard may stand in this affair. It has potential point scorers in 12 events and a break would fix up the Cambridge team. In the high hurdles Dick Hayes and jack Hayes are figured as fourth and fifth, which will not Harvard there points; Hasler is given fifth in the broad jump, adding one point to the Crimson score; Eddie Calvin and Pesky should take fourth and fifth in the 100, bringing the Crimson total up to seven points...
...help it out of this new fix the beet sugar industry could think of nowhere else to turn for help but to Congress. Its first move was to agitate for Philippine independence-less to give the little brown men freedom than to keep their sugar from coming in duty free. A few weeks ago the Philippines were given their second offer of freedom. But still all was not well. Some of the President's advisers wanted to knock down the tariff barriers, thereby administering a death blow to the beet industry as too inefficient and costly a luxury...
...position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill was passed by the House three weeks ago, its quota had been raised from 1,450,000 to 1,550,000 tons. Louisiana and Florida were granted the same quota proposed by the President. Only these quotas were fixed in the law. The Secretary of Agriculture was authorized to fix import quotas so as to bring production and imports into balance with consumption. Since the beet industry's quota was raised by law it meant that the other quotas would have to be reduced by an equal amount...
Last week the Senate put its approval (49-to-18) on the House bill practically without change. Amendments to fix the Hawaiian quota at 975,000 tons and the Puerto Rican quota at 875,000 were defeated. Only the beet sugar industry was favored over the President's proposal...
Before it passed the bill the Senate did the beet sugar industry one last favor. The House bill provided that crop restriction agreements with beet producers "may contain provisions which will eliminate child labor and fix minimum wages for workers." Notable was this provision, for beet growing requires so much hand labor (hoeing, thinning out. pulling) that any beet farmer who wants to cultivate more than four or five acres must hire the cheapest labor-Mexicans and their wives and children-under conditions which scandalize reformers. The Senate struck out the provision for minimum wages and the "elimination" of child...