Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress. As the end approached, Franklin Roosevelt felt kindly enough toward the members to scribble each chamber a note on his private green letter paper. ". . . Much constructive legislation for the benefit of the people. Definitely, we are making progress...
Exemptions. Exceptions would be made for: 1) industries which have signed collective bargaining contracts guaranteeing certain wages for work not in excess of 1,000 hours over a period of 26 consecutive weeks, or guaranteeing an annual wage, where reasonable work weeks might be arranged within a yearly limit of 2,000 work hours; 2) seasonal industries whose employes might work up to 56 hr. per week: 3) agricultural workers and handlers of perishable foods...
Third and soggiest lump was the fact that Austria's imports have exceeded her exports. During the first four months of 1938, Austria's adverse balance was $7,600,000, an almost insurmountable addition to Germany's own $28,400,000 adverse balance for the same period. According to League figures, Germany's net imports of raw and semi-raw materials totaled 1,731,000 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds) in 1936; Austria's 1,867.000. In foodstuffs and livestock for the same year, Germany imported 2,168,000 metric tons...
...worked for High Priest Rhea, Certified Public Accountant O. M. Williams certifies as follows: "I have audited the accounts of Robert Rhea and those of a corporation and two trusts operated by him and for his benefit. . . . My findings were that on total transactions [over nearly a ten-year period] involving 601,612 shares, a gain of $436.19 was realized for each $100.00 of loss." Aside from trading, his 5,565 clients at a yearly fee of $40 a head provide a neat income...
...classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes and machines, build bookcases, boats. Symptomatic also of the change in Eton is the fact that in their-weekly one-hour drawing period boys today may draw railway engines if they like, instead of the conventional pair of oranges and a banana...