Word: lation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club also favors anti-inflation legis lation, development of projects similar to TVA, and vigorous enforcement of now-existing national anti-trust laws...
Just Desserts. In Beckley, W.Va., a young man was charged with posing as a Government "applesauce and preserves tester." Working from house to house, he would declare preserves too sweet − a vio lation of rationing rules − collect $25 to guarantee the housewife's appearance in court...
...deaths for a number of years. At present births are somewhat above replacement level. But since the trend in the birth rate has been downward for the past hundred years, in a generation births will be from 20 to 35% under re placement level. The elements of a popu lation program are contained in the Gov ernment's interest in public education, housing, recreation facilities, health & welfare organizations - all of which lessen the economic burden of having children. But these programs are all uncoordinated. Because "in an industrial society large families lead inevitably to lower levels of living...
...unions, the State American Federation of Labor fought this one. So did A. Philip Randolph, Negro president of the Pull man Porters' Union, who sagely warned: "The Negro workers are part & parcel of all workers . . . and they cannot hope to gain equality within trade unions by legis lation." More militant Negroes hardly expected that the law would be effectively enforced, valued the step chiefly because it put union inequality on the public record...