Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purpose: Economy, easier handling, prevention of counterfeiting. The Treasury's annual savings: $552,520 on paper, $120,000 on ink, $1,000,000 on labor. Average span of life of old-sized bill: eight months. The Treasury's expectation for the new bill: twelve months or more. Cost of producing each bill 7/10?. Time of production: 30 days. The first set of new bills went to Secretary Mellon. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives were sent 435 new $1 bills, one for each Congressman (in exchange...
...which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them into the U. S. duty free as "agricultural implements" lent strength to this fear, foreshadowed dissension in the industry...
London's Evening Standard aptly summed up the entire speech with the headline: CARROTS AND COMMISSIONS. "Commissions to investigate everything; carrots to keep the Liberal 'moke' [donkey] at a hopeful and useful trot for as long as Labor has need...
Until the Labor Party first made itself felt, members of Parliament served without regular government salary. A hardship to many, the rule of unsalaried M. P.'s was popular with tradition-loving Britons who felt that, come what might, Britain would always be governed by Gentlemen...
Last week the American Federation of Labor came to Equity's support, saying: "Your cause is our cause . . . your struggle is our struggle." Equity opponents scorned this as bombastic "moral support." But Equity adherents foresaw that cinemas made by anti-Equity producers might be boycotted by A. F. of L. members and families. Hollywood technicians of all sorts are 'being unionized to help the Equity cause...