Word: shortening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the administration can bully the milk producers into letting it fix their prices; perhaps it can order private industry to shorten working hours and increase its payroll, perhaps it can enforce its codes and throw recalcitrant employers into jail. But, if it starts to do these things, it will not be long before its present legislative support has stolen away, and it will have to decide whether it is going to continue to do them without that support. Rule without the check of parliamentary method has a name, dictatorship. It should not frighten anyone. But it should make people...
Promoter Goodwin estimated last week that 225,000 U. S. churches would be benefited by his plan. To make it even more palatable, the prospectus announces that manufacturers whose products appear on the lists must agree to use "a portion'' of increased profits to raise wages, shorten hours, improve labor conditions, eliminate child labor...
...Physicians should realize and tell their patients that operations undertaken merely to relieve pain or shorten labor are risky. ¶ Mothers should realize they must have early and frequent medical examination during the pre-natal period. ¶ Hospitals should obtain qualified obstetricians to head their staffs; develop specially-trained nursing staffs; establish adequate pre-natal clinics, available to every woman; maintain separate delivery rooms, rigidly guarded against infection; give subordinates careful supervision. Private hospitals should be supervised by a responsible board...
Straus on "Fixing." At the Washington hearings, Mr. Percy first asked why the retailers did not submit a simple code which could be put through quickly and which would accomplish precisely what President Roosevelt wanted-raise wages, shorten hours, increase employment. Next he demanded some assurance that there would be labor and consumer representatives on the Retail Code's administrative board and its local committees. Neglect of consumers, he warned, was likely to be disastrous. And then Mr. Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned...
...generally agreed that the U.S. is the unsafest place in the world to have a baby. Some reasons: abortions; faulty technic of physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...