Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
...Permit the States to reduce their unemployment insurance contributions, if their reserve funds are at a safe ratio to their minimum annual outlays. In the 39 States whose reserves are in a condition permitting reductions, employers stand to save $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 in 1940. > Limit the annual income taxable for unemployment compensation to $3,000, which is now the maximum taxable for old-age insurance. Estimated annual saving to employers...
...Neill for the operators, John Lewis for the miners, the President issued a polite ultimatum: they were plainly in agreement on the principle of union hiring; let them within 36 hours settle the technicalities, start digging coal. Back in Manhattan the two sides were still wrangling when the time limit set by the President expired. Early in the morning as the meeting broke up U. S. Conciliator John Roy Steelman issued a statement: ". . . As Government representatives, we are asking that such companies and associations as are in agreement with the [union] sign contracts and begin operations immediately ... to relieve...
...victories against four defeats is none too impressive, it should be noted that they had to battle their way through a torrid schedule of five outside matches in nine days against the strongest teams in the East and the last time they lost they pressed North Carolina to the limit before succumbing...
...London, the gaffers of the Royal Meteorological Society, impressed by the excellent observations he had been mailing in for three years, proffered Roger Cade a fellowship in the Society. Roger proved to be 14 years old. Anxious beard-wagging over the by-laws discovered no age limit at either end for Fellows, so Roger Cade was admitted...