Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After ten laborious days and nights, conferees of the House and Senate brought out at last week's end a compromise on the Wages-&-Hours Bill to put a floor under Labor's pay, a ceiling over its working week...
Actually, the floor and the ceiling would not move toward each other with this progressive precision. From the outset they would be subject to change...
...cracked" again. He had done the whole thing, all alone, to "get things" for his wife. But he had not murdered the child; that was accidental, he said. Skeegie "must have smothered" while he was quieting him with handkerchiefs. ¶Chief Hoover had Prisoner McCall spirited to the 19th floor of Miami's skyscraper jail to prevent his lynching by an angry Miami...
...ground-floor hallway of the east wing of the White House hangs a large portrait of Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, showing her in a red gown and an aloof expression, with a white dog at her feet. The work of 65-year-old Howard Chandler Christy, it has the characteristics that have made him the most commercially successful U. S. artist, the painter of such celebrities as Mussolini, William Randolph Hearst, James Farley, Chief Justice Hughes, Vice President Garner...
...liquors is raised from $2 to $2.25 a gallon for spirits tax-paid after July 1. This horrified the retail liquor business because it meant that any dealer with large stocks tax-paid before July 1 would have a price advantage. So Congress was asked to add a 25? floor tax to such stocks to avoid demoralizing the price structure. Last week the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported the bill...