Word: paredes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Arnold Bernstein's big contribution to the shipping business was installation of modern elevators in his freight ships so that automobiles could be driven on and off. He pared the cost until the Bernstein Line did 65 % of U. S.-Europe automobile transport. When he was jailed, Studebaker and...
Works Projects' Commissioner Francis C. ("Pink") Harrington, with a reduced appropriation ($1,477,000,000) pared his rolls from 2,200,000 as of last week toward 1,800,000 by mid-September. By September i he must discharge 650,000 (one in three) WPAsters who have been on...
Responsive to popular sentiment, it revised taxes against the President's will. Vote-hungry, it lavished money on farmers. Economy-minded (if not economy-willed), it pared the Relief outlay, tightened the rules, canceled projects it considered frittering. Stubborn, self-assertive, it would have taken away the President'...
At that time Lang Williams was 27 and too young-he decided-to be Freeport's president. But from the vice president's chair he saw that officers' salaries were cut 30%, that expenses were pared all around, that dividend rates were lowered. (In 1928 the company...
> Pared a separate two-year Relief appropriation from $73,000,000 to $35,500,000, loading it with amendments to make sure that Relief does not interfere with the supply of low-wage farm hands.