Word: hiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only once did he break his quota, in 1937 when rising prices forced him to hike it $200,000 to keep his unit production constant. Even so, he turned down at least $150,000 worth of business that year. But never has he turned down so much business as lately-$300,000 worth in one month-for something has happened to the furniture industry...
...pain of dismissal; 2) reduced the differences between WPA wages in the South and other regions. He increased the minimum pay for common labor in the South from $19 per month to $31.20 in rural areas, the maximum in cities from $35 to $50.70, meantime readjusting rates elsewhere to hike the national average from $53 to $55.50. Even this beneficence had a shock effect on the South where WPA pay already was sufficiently above private pay (for farm hands, domestics, etc.) to make labor hard to please...
...propaganda bureau for the British virtues. The Sun Never Sets is another reminder that, as long as C. Aubrey Smith, O. B. E., remains above the horizon, the Union Jack will continue to fly at full staff over Hollywood. His main service in this cinema is to hike young John Randolph (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) out of a cankerous apathy toward the imperial sun ("Let it set. It's about time it did") and into the Colonial service with his brother Clive (Basil Rathbone...
...love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest, is well conceived, but not quite successful in making the references to the step-mother give intensity to the accident that befalls the two brothers in the woods...
...just before the Presidential election, Joe Strecker passed a Negro church in Hot Springs, saw a white woman addressing a black & white audience of about 50. Communism was her theme. Joe remembers she told how bread and oranges were being cast into the sea by capitalists to hike prices. When the collection was taken up, Joe tossed in 60/. He must have signed something because he soon received a membership book from Kansas City headquarters of the Communist Party, with six 10^ dues stamps affixed and a handbill urging William Zebulon Foster for President. Joe Strecker, who had voted...