Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership: 150,000) accepted a 20%, voluntary reduction in pay as a compromise with the Building Construction Employers' Association's request for a 25%, cut. Although most of the city's labor contracts do not expire until 1934, the reduction will become effective March i, will obtain for one year. "We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work...
...last November after a long career as a banker with Chase National, left Manhattan for his first official visit to Hollywood. Certain contract cancellations on his part caused much bitter comment on the lots. Undertone to all Fox gossip was the story that William Fox will again obtain control of his company...
...South the homicide rate among Negroes is higher than among whites. This may be explained by the facts that i) uneducated Negroes believe they cannot obtain justice in courts equally with whites; 2) the custom of carrying concealed weapons is more common among Negroes. Other factors contributing to Southern homicides: illiteracy, heat, loose firearms laws...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
...menacing the stability of many weak currencies. In addition, we shall retard the revival of business, because the countries which have been forced off the gold standard or which have had the stability of their currencies seriously threatened, will, even after the revival is under way, not easily obtain credit to but goods from the rest of the world...