Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons on the Relief income level (less than $1,000 yearly income for the entire family) are disabled for one week or longer for every one person better off economically...
...Relief and low-income families are sick longer as well as more often than better-financed families. They call doctors less often. But the poor, especially in big cities, get to stay in hospitals longer than their better-off neighbors...
...activity, the magnetic storm caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to go haywire. Since it is the medium short-wave band which appears to suffer most from such disturbances, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and R. C. A. Communications restored telephone traffic across the Atlantic by shifting to longer wavelengths...
...contemplates a church governed by a general assembly, bishops, diocesan synods and congregational councils, new bishops to be chosen from the Free Churches on the basis of their membership. Within this church there would be great freedom of doctrine and worship, but Anglicans would be asked to insist no longer on the sign of the cross at baptism, the wearing of surplices, kneeling at communion. In return the Nonconformists would be expected to forget their oldtime objections to bishops. Said a pamphlet released with the plan: "To many Free Churchmen the word 'bishop' still denotes 'the prelate...
When rising costs and falling revenues snipped the net operating income of Erie Railroad from $1,200,000 in December 1936 to $45,000 in December 1937, it could no longer meet its debt charges. When RFC refused Erie's request for a $6,006,000 loan because Erie's wealthy parent company, the Chesapeake & Ohio, would not guarantee the loan (TIME, Jan. 17). the jig was up. Last week, therefore, Erie wearily filed a petition to reorganize under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, its fourth reorganization in 100 years...