Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor is drawn off the land into the factories. When industry is depressed this reserve goes back to the land. In America, which until about 20 years ago was a pioneer and not a settled country, the labor for expanding industries was drawn from; Europe. Statistics show that the rate of influx of immigrants and the rate of production, say of pig iron, go up and down together. But labor imported from the European peasantry to aid an American business boom cannot go back to Europe when the boom is over. It has to stay, be assimilated and Americanized. This...
...arrived at the Cooperative and should be called for as soon as possible. There is still an opportunity for those who have not been measured to be measured this week. Arrangements may be made now for the rental of caps and gowns for Class Day week at the rate of $2.50 each. 1923 Class Day Committee...
...similar way the rates on cement are based upon Gary, Ind. If a farmer in a middle western center goes to a factory to buy a load of cement, he is charged the freight rate from Gary even if he hauls it back in his own truck...
...attention of so many medical men may be surmised from some figures just published in the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The general tendency of diabetes mortality has been upward for fully 20 years. Since 1919 the rise has been still faster. The highest death-rates are found in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, the lowest in the southern and western states, largely because Negroes are less susceptible than whites, while Jews and Irish are more so than other white races. The rate also rises rapidly with advancing age and is higher among females than males...
...lawyers, almost a repudiation of the views expressed in Muller against Oregon, in which it was held that a law regulating the hours of employment of women was valid, and in Bunting against Oregon, in which the Court approved a statute providing for payment for overtime at the rate of time and one-half of the regular wage. As the dissenting Justices argued, if the amount of a commodity to be disposed of can be limited in the interest of public health and welfare, why cannot the minimum price to be paid therefor be similarly restricted...