Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-&-half between employer and employe. This they proposed in vain when the Act was originally passed. Now they hope to succeed, being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority of employers will shift the tax to their customers, Labor as the largest consumer will pay most of it anyhow. But it would be an indirect tax; the ordinary employe would not be aware of his "pay cut," and at least part of the burden would be shifted to farmers and other unbenefited consumers...
...away, many others remained strike-bound as the two seamen's factions battled for control. Most spectacular victory for Curran was delaying for eight hours the ship carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Buenos Aires for the Pan- American Peace Conference. Most significant development was the shift of Eastern strikers from mere sympathy with Western strikers to identical active demands for themselves...
...Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...
Supper time for the evening shift is 8 p. m., a half-hour. At 12:30 a. m. Big Tony's eight-hour day is done. He is in bed by 1 a. m., often sleeping until 2 p. m. the next afternoon. Occasionally he gets up earlier to bowl, his record score being 250. On Sunday he goes to a Catholic church with his mother, takes in a cinema in the afternoon or evening. Big Tony Grzebyk works a five-day week at 90? per hour-$36 for a 40-hour week...
Until some such plan as this is put into effect, undergraduates will continue to dawdle through college only to find the shift to a graduate school equivalent to a step into another world. It is time that Harvard adopted a flexible policy geared to the various abilities of its many students, instead of to the slow speed of the underprepared, bare-pass...