Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marked an important shift in relief policy. The R. F. C.'s $300,000,000 was distributed as loans to strapped states. Half of the new $500,000,000 will be handed to them as out-&-out gifts on the basis of need. They will likewise be given the other half, provided they match each U. S. relief dollar with three of their...
Next move was to reshuffle the cabinet. Little Chancellor Dollfuss traded Ministers around the better to fight Naziism, the better to court a much-needed loan from France. Most important cabinet shift was the appointment as Minister of Public Safety of Major Emil Fey. who has command over all Austria's defense forces. An ardent Royalist, a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, he fights the idea of anschluss (political union) with Germany as reducing Austria to the status of a minor German province...
...normally get $6 for a twelve-hour tour of duty in a hospital ($8 in homes), or 50? an hour. In addition in many hospitals the patient pays a variable amount for his nurse's meals. The experimenting hospitals have put their nurses on three eight-hour shifts a day. One of them pays $5 a shift, or 62 ½?an hour. Patients who must have 24-hour attention pay $15 (instead of $12) a day, plus 75f?for each meal the nurses consume. For hospital patients who require no more than 16 hours of continuous private nursing...
...formal statement and the newshawks, scribbling frantically to catch his husky words, were warned that they could not direct-quote the President. But there was the stark fact: the President was embargoing the export of gold. It meant that the dollar, no longer convertible into gold, would have to shift for itself in foreign exchange and seek its own level downward. Was this a sudden decision by the President? No, he had planned the embargo order four days before. What was his primary purpose? To raise domestic commodity prices and halt the grueling pressure of deflation. If the dollar depreciated...
...conditions of employment with the nation already economically sick will definitely result in a postponement of recovery. Such a control will strike at the producer as well as labor. The manufacturer must choose between one of two alternatives: he must either reorganize his system on a part-time-shift basis which will be costly, or he can restrict his total business using the present personnel on the thirty-hour basis. Both represent a handicap. As for the effect on labor, the present legislation will force a shortening of hours in many industries, and there will result a decrease...