Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...
...conservation was the first task to which Secretary Wilbur, at President Hoover's direction, set his hand on taking office. First, he revoked government drilling permits where the holders could not prove bona fide development (TIME, March 25). Next, he gave his sanction to the American Petroleum Institute's voluntary nationwide agreement to hold down oil production, only to have the Department of Justice rule that such a scheme was possibly an anti-trust violation (TIME, April 22). His third proposal was a series of state treaties under the Constitution to limit the outflow of oil. Nine...
...conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership: 1,918,974). Said he: "Unification is right in principle and is not impractical. Is it not expedient that, we should unite now because of the great common task that confronts us? We should preach what we believe to be the gospel, to preach Jesus Christ as we believe in Him, as the greatest and most difficult problem now is true Christian education...
...layman arrive at anything like an unprejudiced opinion concerning the events which are taking place round about him. Nevertheless it is that very opinion which the average citizen does, and must, form which goes to play a subsequent and important role in the making of contemporary life. The task of the citizen faced with the riddle of current events is one of the major problems of democracy...
...sentence must be spent at hard labor. The first two weeks of his sentence he must sleep on bare boards. For 28 days the man whose champagne suppers were the talk of Mayfair must crush rocks on the stonepile. After that he will be given the slightly less difficult task of making mail bags...