Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good many college graduates are employed in the early fall each year for training in department store work. The training involves working in the stock room pricing goods, selling over the counter on the floor, arranging counter displays, and learning the mechanics of store operation...
Month ago Mrs. Rose McConnell Long was called on for the first time to preside temporarily over the Senate. Last week the new Senator from Louisiana made her maiden Congressional speech, not on the Senate floor but in the privacy of a Public Lands Committee hearing. In pleasant contrast to the loud histrionics of her late husband & predecessor, it was a mild little plea for the passage of a bill to enlarge Chalmette National Historical Park, on the site of the Battle of New Orleans. "Had we not won that battle," said Widow Long of the great victory which Andrew...
...after the martyrdom of her husband. It was no less natural for the Hearst Press to report such a rumor about the liquid-eyed lady from Louisiana. For years her dowdy colleague, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, has sat alone and relatively neglected in the Senate. Now Senators leaving the floor frequently pause to pass the time of day with Mrs. Long. Senators...
...given to Carnegie Institution's men at Mt. Wilson Observatory. The committee in charge of the project is headed by Mt. Wilson's venerable George Ellery Hale, famed solar authority. The first 200-in. mirror was marred during the casting when cores broke loose from the floor of the mold and floated to the top of the molten glass (TIME, April 2, 1934). Rather than grind out the huge pockmarks in the mirror's back, the Corning physicists decided to cast a new disk.* Second time the cores stayed in place...
...series of incidents which retailers considered a highhanded abuse of the Guild's position. One day last month at Strawbridge & Clothier's, swank Philadelphia department store, a Guild investigator became quietly uppish. She demanded that a certain dress, in her opinion a copy, be removed from the floor and that she be told the name of the manufacturer. Its managers knew they had an agreement with the Guild, but they understood that the agreement left them free to decide which dresses were copies and which were not. They refused the investigator's request. Two days later...