Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...
Noting that today the radiation treatment of malignant disease is largely carried out by the 200,000 volt apparatus, the Huntington hospital staff declared that it has become apparent to many radiologists that even shorter wave lengths, produced by higher voltages, are highly desirable in the treatment of cancer...
...miles from the sea but connected with San Francisco Bay by a deep water channel, cans and ships the fruits and vegetables of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there belongs to Harry Bridges...
...Blum's new social laws, are enjoying a 40-hour working week, there was plenty of discontent in France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some...
...made his debut as such in the first important event of the eastern rowing season. He was Tom Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn to replace Charles Whiteside whose crews, though they beat Yale four times out of seven in four-mile races at New London, did poorly in shorter races. The event was the one and three quarter mile varsity race in the Compton Cup Regatta, on Princeton's Lake Carnegie...