Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price. If the Government undertook to stabilize the clothing industry, it would have on its hands a production-&-price control problem beside which reducing next year's wheat acreage would be child's play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards over previous orders), WPA explained that one reason for expanding the order was to make work for the textile...
Thus NLRB concluded an undefeated season in the Supreme Court. There remained only one form of attack which could stop NLRB's work: a change in the Wagner Labor Act itself. Although employers' talk of amending the Act has met little response from Congress, for a time last week it looked as if NLRB in its hour of triumph might be given a sudden jolt...
Liberals and Laborites read into Sir Thomas' statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor...
Theme of Holiday is the dilemma of a young man forced to choose between marrying an heiress, who is ambitious to have him take a profitable job in her father's bank, and his own desire to stop making money and take a holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight...
...these and various other operations began to achieve a certain notoriety and the Department of Justice brought the first anti-trust action against Alcoa. It resulted in a consent decree by which the company agreed to cancel its monopolistic contracts and to stop such practices in future. Since then Alcoa has been investigated several times by the Federal Trade Commission, twice by the Department of Justice. Alcoa has usually come out with a clean bill of health...