Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon be over. More important...
...bigger than a page of newsprint), covers 1/40 of the visible sky at each exposure, shows about 400,000 stars on one plate. With this giant apparatus Dr. Cook intends to photograph the entire sky. After six months of precise adjustments, the camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...
...might be included, which was presumably the reason for their refusal to bid. Reason they finally got the business was that the law permits suspension of the rules in an "emergency," a state which apparently exists when the Navy lacks copper. Another "emergency" may arise shortly because of boiler plate...
...Crawford, McKeesport Tin Plate...
...employed 25 servants, supported in all 62 people. He mentions the maharajah who went to pay a quiet overnight visit with 700 retainers, and was of such high caste that he always ate alone, when he gave a dinner party would have a half lemon put on his plate, out of courtesy. As for the condition of Indian women, Mr. Yeats-Brown flatly disagrees with Katherine Mayo (Mother India) that they are an enslaved sex: "Her facts are correct as regards the infinitesimal percentage of women to whom they apply, but her deductions from these special cases are a travesty...