Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth receiver a severe jolt on Thursday in the loss of Calder from the squad. We have now no kicker, and Harvard will play a kicking game tomorrow. That means that we will have to shift backs throughout the game. It is a serious handicap. But we are all expecting...
...following University and Feshman Cross Country Schedules were announced yesterday by W. E. Collins '24, manager of cross country. Although the meets below are scheduled to come on Saturday, an effort is being made to shift the meets to the preceding Friday afternoons in order to avoid conflicts with the University football games on Saturday afternoons...
Beginning on Monday, August 13, and on succeeding days various units of the U. S. Steel Corporation and other steel mills changed from the two-shift (twelve-hour day) system to the three-shift (eight-hour day) system. In this way was carried out the promise of Elbert H. Gary, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, that the abolition of the two-shift system would " now " begin. The first changes following Mr. Gary's promise took place in the vicinity of Chicago, at Gary (Ind.), South Chicago and Joliet...
...abolition of the two-shift system in the continuous processes does not mean the universal institution of the eight-hour day in the steel industry. There will be many workers who will work ten hours, some twelve hours-but for twelve-hour work "overtime " will be paid...
...question of where the extra men for the three-shift system will come from is one which the steel heads profess to find difficult. They are anxious to have the immigration law altered to admit more immigrants, which would help to keep down the prices of labor and probably decrease the chances of the industry's being unionized. President Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation is one of those most insistent on the need for more immigrants...