Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domination has caused some big consumers (notably General Motors) to keep their aluminum consumption at an irreducible minimum. Mr. Bohn pointed out last week that if his new process breaks Aluminum Co.'s longstanding control of the raw metal, damage to that company will probably be offset by more widespread use of aluminum, since manufacturers will have the reassurance of two sources instead...
...increased by dispensing with their nursing schools and hiring graduate nurses at $50 a month and keep to do the bedside duties now performed by student nurses. For the menial duties of the student nurse the hospital would engage regular servants at $40 a month, the cost being offset by closing down its nursing school...
...Second Trouble. By that time Labor had developed an acute distaste for a system of cutting down supply which also cut down wages by 25%. But Labor had another major complaint. The mills were trying to offset high wages by resorting to the "stretch-out," the hated practice whereby a worker is forced to tend more and more looms. These were not the only two troubles which NRA had brought. Section 7 (a) had sent the A. F. of L. out on a mighty crusade to unionize the industry. With the prestige of the Recovery Act behind them...
Thus the "national strike of textile workers" remained a question mark. Last week President Roosevelt ordered NRA to cut the hours of cotton garment workers (not to be confused with cotton textile workers) from 40 to 36 per week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care...
...their operating costs, the restoration of pay cuts on July 1 another $156,000,000, and increases in materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten statement made public by the Association at the close of the meeting did not confirm this in so many words, but it emphasized that the "railroads have no sources of income other than money received for services performed for the public, and they are faced with...