Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stafford's job might still be done within the astounding two-week limit he had set himself. Otherwise the outlook was dark. It was late, Japan was near,* and Britain's generous voice might be drowned by the harsh conquering voices of Tokyo...
...Many a citizen had the wrong idea about the 40-hour-week law. As Mr. Roosevelt took pains to point out, that law did not limit hours of work; WPB figures on hours worked in seven key war industries showed machine-tool workers busy 55 hours a week; engine & turbine, 51.1; aircraft, 48.7; shipbuilding, 48.2; machinery, 47.1; aluminum, 45.9; iron & steel, 41.3. Behind a lot of senseless clamor, the critics of labor had one essential point: labor is getting time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 hours a week and often double time on Sundays and holidays even...
...business asked the Government last week to tax it almost-but not quite-out of business. Through the National Association of Manufacturers it urged that "all income over and above that needed to keep our business structure alive should be taxed to the limit-leaving only enough for survival...
...Federal Reserve Board tightened the screws on installment selling. Down payments were upped all along the line, and the time limit was cut from 18 months to 15 on everything except residential modernization, plumbing, furnaces, vater heaters and pumps, and pianos...
Thirdly, Attorney General Biddle has ordered the Federal Grand Jury to investigate the conspiracy to foment the riots and will prosecute to the limit of the law. Mayor Jeffries of Detroit has condemned the Hitler facties used on the Negroes...