Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warn every German worker against going to Russia. . . . Our contracts called for six-hour shifts with pay of 140 to 150 rubles ($70 to $75) a month . . . but each man was set so large a daily task that seven or eight hours was required to finish it. ... Food was bad ... no meat .... quarters dirty. . . . Briefly, the cultural and social conditions in Russia cannot satisfy any German worker...
...struggling to make the little army left to us by the Treaty of Versailles fit as possible for its task of defending the country. . . . That we are unable to devote more money than we have to the maneuvers clearly shows to what degree German disarmament has been carried out. While our western neighbor [France] a few weeks ago held two big maneuvers in each of which 50,000 men participated [TIME, Sept. 15], together more than the whole German army . . . our maneuver comprised one infantry division, one cavalry division, wooden cannons in place of heavy artillery, armored motor cars...
Impossible would be the task of an investor who tries to follow all he is told. Of conflicting opinions, no better example has occurred than that which flared from the financial page of the New York Journal one day last week...
...opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick whose campaign expenditures the Committee has been scrutinizing, Senator...
Most large companies have special staffs devoted to the task of studying future business conditions. For years it has been known that American Telephone & Telegraph Co. prepares such a report. But while A. T. & T. of necessity assumes responsibility for shaping its own policy, it will not attempt to aid other businesses by publishing its forecast...