Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the question of prevailing wages was raised for steel, Secretary Frances Perkins' Public Contracts Board recommended hourly wage minima of 45? in the South, 62½? elsewhere. Independent companies kicked up a great row; U. S. Steel, already paying as much or more, was contentedly silent. Last week, Assistant Secretary of Labor Charles V. McLaughlin finally set the scale for the industry: 45? in 13 Southern States, 58½? in seven Midwestern States, 60? in eleven Western States, 62½? in the East...
...effect the order did C. I. O. two great favors: 1) guarded against wage slashes which might otherwise follow the wholesale price cuts precipitated last year by unionized U, S. Steel; 2) turned competitive heat upon non-union Little Steel companies, wiping out some of their economic reasons for refusing to sign with...
...company is obliged to pay Mr. McLaughlin's minima, but all who want a share of the Government's steel orders above $10,000-amounting to $63,000,000 last year-will have to comply...
...London nowadays is not calculated to settle the nerves. If you go into St. James Park to feed the ducks on the lake, you will see holes in the ground-bomb shelters. If you plan to remodel your Victorian house in Chelsea, you must make provision for a steel cellar-bomb shelter. If you go for a spin in your little Vickers monoplane, you must watch for preposterous balloons dangling wires-defense against bombers. If you have a disproportionately long nose, you must be specially fitted for a gas mask...
Besides two books on his experiences in the war, he wrote several books and many articles on metallography and the metallurgy of iron and steel. Outside of his honorary degrees he was awarded the Cresson Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Bessemer Medal of the British Iron and Steel Institute, and the Albert Sauveur Achievement Medal of the American Society for Metals...