Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate prospect of personal gain. On the contrary, they walked out on a 50% raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
...Roly-poly Mr. Burroughs, who swore that he did not know the whereabouts of his boss, roly-poly Mr. Hopson, was equally uncertain about A. G. & E.'s corporate setup. "I can't any more tell you the corporate organization of all the companies than you can tell me the corporate set-up of the alphabetical agencies of the Government...
...Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
...amendment, they had no time to squabble over it. Urged on by President Roosevelt they presented the resolution to the House which rubber-stamped it, 336-to-31, two days before the old NRA expired. Then in an all-embracing executive order the President decreed the new setup...
...priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have an equal chance at an officer's commission. Thus a new order of self-made soldiers will be introduced into the old Army setup of Kaiser Wilhelm...