Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hour Week. Fortnight ago the President told the 3.500 members of industry's code authorities that he was opposed to arbitrary flat reduction of the work week for all industry. Yet Congressmen are much inclined to favor a bill for a 30-hour week. If it were passed allowing no exceptions the President would veto it. If it were passed allowing him wide discretion in its application, he might accept...
...died in 1930), Sidney Howard married "Polly" Damrosch, daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, in 1931. Two years ago they moved to California in a Buick. A thin, high-shouldered man, whose thick glasses and birdlike carriage give him a slightly alarmed appearance, Sidney Howard has a two-room flat in Hollywood, a more capacious apartment in Manhattan. For work he dresses in a tweed coat, grey flannel trousers, sneakers. He smokes cigarets steadily and rubs his chin while dictating, by fits and starts, faster than most stenographers can take...
...increasing employment can be maintained. . . . Reduction in hours coupled with a decrease in weekly wages will do no good at all, for it amounts merely to a forced contribution to unemployment relief by the class least able to bear it. I have never believed that we should violently impose flat, arbitrary and abrupt changes on the economic structure but we can nevertheless work together in arriving at a common objective...
...edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants...
...With his 1934 models well into production before the year-end, Henry Ford had a running start in the annual race for the title "Fastest Selling Car in the U. S." Still far in the lead last week. Henry Ford suddenly cut prices. Since it was not a flat cut but reductions varying by sections of the country, motormen assumed that Mr. Ford was meeting the lower prices which Chevrolet achieved by quoting delivered price instead of F.O.B...