Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Hopkins, who felt that even the President's figure was too small, declared that 500,000 of WPA's 2,000,000 dolesters would have to be discharged as it was. So the full Appropriations Committee overrode Mr. Woodrum's economy plan...
...Said Youngstown: "The signed agreement demanded of us could not be enforced by us because it would be a one-sided instrument whereunder the employer alone would possess legal responsibility. ... The wage rates requested have been and are in effect. The company's vacation plan is more liberal to the employes than the one proposed by the C. I. 0. The hours of work requested have been and are in effect. The company has been, now is and will continue to be willing to meet and negotiate with representatives chosen by its employes for all purposes of collective bargaining...
...mistaken for a hat factory last week. Six long tables littered with headgear-straws of every shape, felts of every color-stretched like assembly lines the length of the room. The long lines of men who sat along both sides of the tables were assembling not hats but a plan of campaign against their rival brothers of toil. They were the representatives of 102 national and international unions,* members of the A. F. of L. They had been called together by the Federation's Executive Council to approve a four-point plan of battle against John L. Lewis...
...purpose of the reading list, in addition to promoting interest in the history of American civilization among students and others is to prove that an individual may continue his education throughout life by disciplined reading on an informal basis, according to President James B. Conant who initiated the plan. It is an attempt to counteract the idea that the only road to knowledge lies through formal instruction in regular college courses...
...were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME, Nov. 23), the voluntary chain consists of stores owned and operated by independent merchants but serviced and supplied by a central organization. A. & P. could become a voluntary chain by selling stores to their managers, continuing to function...