Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition undoubtedly hoped to use the Court bill as a means of inflicting a defeat on Franklin Roosevelt, among such men as these, charges of personal animus only helped to create bitterness. Whether or not that bitterness would be effective in defeating the bill, it was of first-rate significance on its own account. Every day the bitter debate continued was a blow on a wedge splitting the hitherto solid ranks of Administration supporters...
...lately voted to throw in its lot with John Lewis. C.I.O. membership is now nearly as large as A. F. of L.'s (3,000,000 as against 3,600,000). Said sarcastic Mr. Lewis last week: "If C.I.O. continues to lose ground at the present rate, I don't know how we'll handle all the applications that are pouring...
...since 1929. Industrially the picture was still more pleasing. Second-quarter earnings reports would be closely scanned for signs of shrinking profit margins but actual profits were expected to compare favorably with a year ago. Operations in the steel industry were above a year ago although strikes cut the rate from above 90% capacity in May to around 75% currently. The price of steel scrap, a good barometer of steel opinion, advanced in Pittsburgh last week for the first time since April. Summed up Manhattan's National City Bank at the end of the fiscal year...
...unusually good fishing season. At low tide the diggers wade around in knee-deep mud, combing wrigglers to the surface with long-tined clam rakes. A lucky day's haul is 1,000 worms but the average is 500 or less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask on the surface in the dark. While the tidal mudflats, owned by the Government, show no signs of worm...
...brother-in-law at one crack of China's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, President Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minster T. V. Soong. It was logical in 1933 when T. V. Soong quarreled with Chiang that Dr. Kung should succeed to his job. Regarded then as second-rate compared to brilliant "T. V.", Dr. Kung has since done a whacking good job, currently sits high at China's council tables. When Chiang was kidnapped last winter, Dr. Kung became acting President, ran the country through that highly explosive situation with a minimum of trouble. Then he bustled...