Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alcoa were three companies of National Guardsmen. The Alcoa strike was called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted to return to work, and the local...
...sweep away, making a single political unit out of Trans-Jordan and the portion of Palestine now assigned and partitioned to the Arabs. Thus this week the Emir of Trans-Jordan, His Highness Abdullah ibn Hussein, figured that what the British are going to do will, at any rate, enlarge his realm and glory. His Highness came out instantly for partition of Palestine, declared in a special edition of his personal newsorgan that he is "highly pleased...
...reared a soil-grubbing peasant, while Dr. Ley worked originally as a chemist. Cianetti is ebullient, fiery, humorous-Ley full of German mysticism and plodding pugnacity. In a recent two-hour address to proletarians at Hamburg, Labor's Ley key- noted : "Those German employers who dare to rate machines higher than men are going to be given plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances and badgering big Italian employers like...
...this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every...
...into the best-seller class. The reason for this sudden popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this news interest, will still rate Cathedral Close a competent, well-characterized story giving a vivid authentic picture of an environment little less unique than English royalty...