Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months hence the Wages-&-Hours law, to rivet a floor (25? per hr.) and a ceiling (44 hr. per week) under and over U. S. Labor, will go into effect. To Washington last week to square off at administering that law went Elmer Frank ("Jap") Andrews, 48, the mild-mannered civil engineer whom Franklin Roosevelt called from his parallel post in New York State. Last week, Mr. Andrews marched into
...drews announced, are all he will attempt to tackle at the start. Textiles will be No. 1, cotton garments No. 2, tobacco No. 3. The law requires the Administrator to set up a wage-hour committee for each industry, which will then fix that industry's floor & ceiling. Mr. Andrews had already called in textile operators, textile labor delegates and representatives of the consuming public. Correspondents learned that: 1) Chairman of the textile committee would probably be Vice President Donald Nelson of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (the man whom Franklin Roosevelt tried in vain to get for Mr. Andrews...
...This week he proposed to do that very thing, with How To Become a Good Dancer, result of three years of collaboration between him and his publishers.* Most notable novelty in Teacher Murray's book is its eight cut-outs-The Murray Magic Footprints. Put these on the floor according to diagrams in the book, walk on them while humming simple tunes, practice assiduously; such is the Murray magic...
...minimum motortruck freight rates for the New England and Central States. To stop destructive rate wars in the industry, ICC established a new "floor," averaging 1½% higher in New England and 3½% higher in the Central district than rates now in effect...
...method, successfully tested in Long Island Sound, is to drop a barrage of quicklime through the water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...