Word: spadework
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...hearing June 27, the code provides a minimum wage of $10 a week in southern mills. $11 in the north, a 44-hr, week, and acknowledgement of employes' right to collective bargaining. The coal men in Chicago were preparing a code. The American Petroleum Institute was also doing spadework in Chicago, while to Washington the independents sent their own recommendations. At Bloomfield, Ind., 30 Indiana limestone producers agreed on a code...
After adjourning, the B. I. S. directors did not go home. Their real work, the best reason for their meeting was to hold a series of conferences, do the spadework necessary to present some sort of a plan to the World Economic Conference in June for the resumption of a "reformed" gold standard by B. I. S. members for which the B. I. S. annual report called...
...pure-minded U. S. sanitary engineer. Finally just a year late, she reached north Oxford at last. Aunt Ermyntrude was not at all upset, was still expecting her. Without once calling a spade a spade, Author Laver manages to give the impression that a good deal of spadework has been done...
Upshot of Father Tacchi-Venturi's spadework was a conference between Count Cesare de Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to the Holy See, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. After Count de Vecchi left, the Pope, Cardinal Pacelli and Father Tacchi-Venturi were closeted until late in the afternoon. Later His Holiness said: "We do not know whether a solution can be reached in a short or long time, but it certainly will be reached when the Lord wishes-that is to say, at the moment most suitable for the good of souls...