Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will skilled union workers starve to protect the wage scales which Labor has struggled 50 years to build? That question was put to a test in New York City last week when some 2,000 union bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, lathers on Federal relief jobs walked out on strike against WPA's "security wages...
...addition to launching the public works program, set up Government agencies for combatting unemployment (chiefly by limiting workers of alien nationality) and to enforce reduction of meat prices, lower bread prices already having been decreed. Fiscal measures, newly decreed, reduce the inheritance tax on farms, stiffen bankruptcy laws to protect creditors, reduce the profit permitted on contracts with the State, increase the profit tax paid by directors of large concerns, reduce the interest rates on commercial loans and generally contribute in involved fashion to the budget-balancing, despite the two added billions expenditure for public works, M. Laval...
...this was capped by a reversal of French economic foreign policy which has sought of recent years to protect home industry by rigid quotas limiting imports. Since other nations have retaliated in kind against French exports, Premier Laval decreed a general procedure of scrapping quotas and replacing them with reciprocal tariff agreements, hoping to induce other nations by friendly negotiation to admit more French wares as France admits more foreign goods...
...appears in photographs make me imagine him to be a cheap comedian. His pompous personal demonstrations do not appeal to the Arab, accustomed as we are to the simplicity of the Sahara. I wish I could be the first Arab to enroll as a volunteer to protect Ethiopia, the ancient friend of Mohammed! What a shame that Rome-the capital of Christianity-is attempting to enslave one of the most ancient Christian nations. It is something more than Power, it is Heathenism. It has divorced the Italians from Christian ethics...
...first mortgage as follows: 1) Its interest rate is lower than the coupons of any of the bonds and notes it replaces; therefore a considerable interest saving would be effected. 2) Goodrich's reason for refunding the Hood Rubber notes, due in 1936 anyway, is to protect its investment in that company, which last March stood at $13,440,000. 3) Since only $22,000,000 of the $28,000,000 to be raised by the new mortgage will be used in the refunding operations. Goodrich will have $6,000,000 left to add to working capital...