Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's employers are organized into parallel groups: industrial associations formed first to combat, later to bargain with, the labor unions. There are 266 general employer associations, 1,550 locals. At the top is a National Confederation of Employers' Organizations...
...floor (25? per hr.) and a ceiling (44 hr. per week) under and over U. S. Labor, will go into effect. To Washington last week to square off at administering that law went Elmer Frank ("Jap") Andrews, 48, the mild-mannered civil engineer whom Franklin Roosevelt called from his parallel post in New York State. Last week, Mr. Andrews marched into
...Wuhan cities substantially unprotected, came over, squadron after squadron during the week, flying at from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, above the range of Chinese anti-aircraft batteries. More than 100 bombs dotted the Hankow airfield with yawning craters. Wuchang was systematically bombed by Japanese craft flying in parallel lines, with nearly 500 deaths in a single...
This last was the respect in which the Earle law provided a parallel to the new Federal Wages-&-Hours Bill. And it was the respect in which it failed to pass the court. Including H. Edgar Barnes. Earle's appointee and the only Democrat on the bench, the seven justices ruled as though they were paraphrasing the U. S. Supreme Court's NRA opinion: that a legislature cannot legally "abdicate, transfer or delegate" its powers to an administrator...
Splitting Light. The important work which Robert Williams Wood is now doing is the manufacture of diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl...