Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis two months ago, Washington University offered a course in collective bargaining. That its course did not give all the answers, however, was evidenced the same day when 39 university janitors and maintenance workers went on strike, demanding union recognition, higher pay, shorter hours. Fuming professors dusted their own desks until strikebreakers were brought in. Strikers picketed the university and its football games. Fortnight ago the St. Louis Central Trades and Labor Union placed the university on its ''unfair" list. Teachers Union members, who belong to the American Federation of Labor, continued to walk past the picket lines...
...present Mexican oil crisis began last May with a nation-wide strike by oilworkers for more pay and shorter hours. Since foreign oil companies pay 7% of Mexico's taxes, a prolonged strike threatened Government finances as well as those of the foreign oil companies. After two weeks, therefore, President Cárdenas intervened, commissioned a group of Government experts to investigate. Two months later in a 3,250-page report the experts ordered 17 foreign companies to raise wages some $7,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 16). Contending that the report was "grossly unfair," the companies refused...
...Freshmen have their race separate, running a shorter distance totaling two and six-tenths miles. Both Yale and Princeton have good teams this year. The Princeton yearlings beat Columbia 15 to 40 last Saturday, and Yale Freshmen beat Dartmouth...
Wages and Hours. "A few more dollars a week in wages, a better distribution of jobs with a shorter working day will almost overnight make millions of our lowest-paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products. That increased volume of sales ought to lessen other costs of production so much that even a considerable increase in labor costs can be absorbed without imposing higher prices on the consumer...
...Stage Door is based on the fairly plausible assumption that the legitimate stage is worth starving for, but that its illegitimate child should be called by the shorter name for such offspring, Miss Bennett as Terry Randall struggles through three acts and six scenes defending that creed. She sees her beau, an ill-mannered thunder-and-lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure...