Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sneered ungrateful Leader Jinnah: "A parody of negation. . . . Pure shadow and husk of our Pakistan scheme...
...real production stranglehold is the "quota." The quota started as a scheme to beat the hated production speed-up which workers suspect in Akron's piecework system. In the past, faster work often meant that the company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves...
...subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...
...Shushed by indignantly reverent ushers, the fidgety fans sat in embarrassed silence, stretched their voices in relief after the sacred ceremony of music. Philip Knight Wrigley, backer of the League and chief matchmaker in its marriage to music, was solemnly enthusiastic. He has long been eager to try any scheme, however dignified, which might promote his Midwestern softball carnival...
Since most U.S. citizens and bankers do not understand the fund or its operations any better than Senator Taft, there is a good chance that Congress will turn the proposals down as a deep-laid scheme...