Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arithmetic of Peace. No one was sure just what price Lewis had exacted in terms of hourly wage increases for his miners. The United Mine Workers said 35?; the operators said closer to 45?. The arithmetic was complicated by changing the $11.85 nine-hour day to a $13.05 eight-hour day (including an hour to travel from the mine portal to the face of the working and back, and a new half-hour lunch period). The arithmetic was further complicated by doubling the royalty paid into the miners' health & welfare fund to 110? a ton (between...
...first man to report seeing them was Kenneth Arnold, of Boise, Idaho. Arnold, a businessman, was flying near Washington's Mt. Rainier when nine saucerlike objects, noiseless and sunbright, came streaking over the Cascades at "1,200 miles an hour in formation, like the tail of a kite." Arnold said later: "I don't believe...
...Nine days later, the six reached Lethbridge, 3,600 miles away, where they heard that miners could earn $15 a day. Within an hour, Cameron and four of his friends had jobs at a Lethbridge Collieries Ltd. mine. The sixth had a job near...
...effect, two new armies will be built up from scratch. Last week the British-owned Calcutta Statesman lamented: "Within nine months, therefore, unless plans have meanwhile to be altered under pressure of events, the best army in Asia (with the possible exception of that which Russia keeps in Siberia) will, we reckon, be reduced to about a sixth of its present military value-perhaps less...
There is one catch: the bill will not become effective until the nine provinces, which may add pension payments of their own, work out the details with the Dominion. Then the new legislation will cost Canadian taxpayers an estimated $65,500,000 a year in Dominion taxes (a $20,000,000 increase). But in the House, the only real opposition had come from members who thought that the Government was too stingy...