Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised from $21 per month...
...paid its labor better. Now was the Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were boosted. In two States-Kentucky and Oklahoma- where Roosevelt Senators happen to be threatened in primary elections, the boosts were sharpest of all. No explanation was given except that...
Notable for bitterness-Candidate Petersen called Candidate Benson and his friends "racketeers"-the primary was notable also for the intervention of Franklin Roosevelt, who last month removed State WPAdministrator Victor Christgau at the insistence of Governor Benson, a New Deal ally in 1936 and potentially an even more valuable ally...
...Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace announced that to prevent undue price fluctuation from speculation, the Commission proposed: 1) a 2,000,000 bu. limit on net long or short positions in all futures combined or any one contract market (3,000,000 in "spread positions") except during the delivery month when the limit would be cut to 1,000,000; 2) a daily trading limit per person of 2,000,000 bu. in all futures combined, also cut to 1,000,000 in the delivery month, These limitations, which will not apply to bona fide hedging operations, will go into...
...last month's eleven, three stood out as best bets. In order of merit...