Word: low
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor policies are far from being as perishable as its products. Packinghouse workers have a non-union tradition. Since a big strike was crushed in 1886 in Chicago, only two major labor disturbances - one in 1904, one in 1921-have troubled the stockyards. Each was finally throttled. Workers are low-paid. Their wages rank 13th among the 15 major industries. But nearly all larger packers have some sort of employe representation plan...
...Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided new, airy, sunny, low-rent housing for more than 160,000 slum families...
Private capitalists such as President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (Manhattan) and Board Chairman Frederick H. Ecker of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped before the committee to suggest, politely, that the Government has gone far enough with low-cost Housing in the rental field, since that is the field (as distinct from the home-owning field) into which large private capital seeking profit might go if encouraged...
...Essen; irritating to Germans, whose newspapers screamed "war-mongering." Before popular enthusiasm for the performance ebbed, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented the House of Commons with the bill-not for the flight alone, but for British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized. In his low and unemotional voice Sir John admitted that his estimates for the defense budget last April had been wrong. Defense would not cost $3,140,000,000. The bill would run somewhat above $3,650,000,000-a little matter of $510,000,000 more than had been calculated. Since last year...
...were going to feed the chickens, took a quick look at the 63,000 faces staring at him from the packed stands in Yankee Stadium, took a quick look at the bases and then wound up-without even a nervous hitch at his trousers. The ball was a low, fast one and Pirate Arky Vaughan smacked it-right into a double play (Yankee Gordon to Red Sock Cronin to Tiger Greenberg...