Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan for industrial peace here to be described has already proven workable. ... P. R. T. (Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.) in 1911 was not financially able to pay its trainmen more than the wage rate theretofore secured through arbitration, and against which the men were in open rebellion. The payment of this rate in 1910 had consumed about 22% of the gross passenger earnings. The new agreement, which we then made, provided that out of every dollar taken in, these men should receive 22 cents, so that as the owners secured advantage by the increased business obtained through joint effort...
...collaboration with Dr. F. A. E. Crew of Edinburgh University, he had bred a strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...
...only between France and Germany that America enters. What railway bonds Europeans do not buy, will go, at the urgent request of the French, to Americans. For French industry depends somewhat on the pending dent to secure its stability and raise the rate of exchange of the franc. The rattle of American gold may share in the concert of Europe...
...Federal and state laws are increasing at the rate of about ten thousand a year. Thing of the New York policeman who carries in his pockets a list of the sixteen thousand ordinances and regulations which he is expected to enforce...
...Club. Many of these instruments along with piccolos, trumpets, trombones, saxaphones, and drums are used in the Banja Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra is made up of a select group of players to provide the dance music for after the concerts. The Specialty Division offers ample opportunities for first rate vaudeville acts. Clog dancing, juggling, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, along with xylophone, Hawaiian guitar, ukelele, and accordian playing are desirable...