Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier developed his thesis amid a stramash of interruptions. He had no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Under present conditions the coal mining industry could not support the miners' standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy...
This tirade followed a reply by the Soviet government to Britain's note of protest (TIME, June 21) against the alleged contribution by the Soviet government itself of funds to support striking British workers. Like the British note the Soviet reply was couched in mild terms. The Soviet government denied that it had sent the funds in question, but refused to take steps to prevent its closely interlocked labor organizations from sending "Red gold" to Britain...
...Cook, who once described himself as a humble disciple of Lenine, has recently thanked God for Russia and has explained that the sum of £400,000 had been received from their comrades in the Russian mines in order to support the dependents of their English colleagues in a moment of adversity. It is indeed a touching reflection that the miners of Russia are prepared to work ten hours a day in order that their British colleagues may not have to work eight...
Endowments. The era of physical expansion at the colleges had by no means, ended nor the endowment-raising era to maintain buildings and support the pedagogy that is to operate within them. The biggest campaign announced during the year was that of New York University, for 73 millions in the next decade. (During 1923-24 the total gifts to all colleges, not counting state appropriations, was only 91 millions...
...public he said: "I have entire confidence in the ability of the territory served by the Western Pacific to support an independent system which shall have for its sole objective the upbuilding of the territory served...