Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georges Bonnet, dapper French Finance Minister, felicitated everyone on their "loyal efforts," contented himself with remarking that eventually nations off gold would thank France and the other gold standard countries for their efforts to maintain a fixed standard by which fluctuating monies can be measured...
...more than 40 hours a week or pay them less than $15-to-$12 per week depending upon the size of the community. These latter employers were also asked to run their offices and stores on a 52-hour week basis, thus forcing themselves to hire additional workers to maintain the schedule. Other features of the "partnership" called for: 1) no child labor; 2) no wage cuts to the proposed minimum; 3) no profiteering; 4) no more price-upping than was actually necessary. Fixed-price contracts for future deliveries were to be revised to meet higher costs. Exempt from...
...reflection of conditions as seen by the Congress perhaps may be had from the poignant words of a Senator on the floor of the Senate discussing the Economy Bill, officially entitled "An Act to maintain the credit of the United States," which, among other things, reduced pensions and allowances to veterans. He said, "Let no one be deceived! This is not a time of peace. We are in the midst of the most disastrous conflict that has ever cursed this continent. Measured in terms of human suffering this panic's war against us has been more asgonizing than...
Several of the latter, however, were full grown businesses accepted into Drug Inc. on the understanding that they were to maintain private establishments of their own. For example...
...notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average man into a man-sized hero. Says she: "Why . . . should not one of the crowd, one of those who maintain, those who transmit, have a standard biography written for him with as much justification as one of the celebrities, one of those who improve?" Carr makes her question superfluously rhetorical. Like Inheritance (TIME, Sept. 12), Carr is a novel of Yorkshire, its background the textile industry of the West Riding...