Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abolition of the two-shift system will take place only for the workers engaged in "continuous processes" -that is, to those workers who tend furnaces operating 24 hours a day. This number is about 120,000, or 25% of the 480,000 men in the industry. The three-shift system, according to Judge Gary's calculations, will require 60,000 additional workers and add $45,000,000 a year to the pay roll of the industry, increasing the cost of steel...
...statement denying that the check-off was satisfactory in the bituminous mines. The committee stated that it had filed a request with the Coal Commission for the abolition of the checkoff. Said the committee : " This system was originally accepted in the bituminous industry in the hope that it would tend to lessen strikes and breaches of agreement. The result has been just the opposite. . . . Under the check-off the United Mine Workers raise every year more than $17,000,000. From this huge sum they paid the expenses of the armed invasion of West Virginia...
Among the leading questions brought to his attention were the depletion of the Panhandle salmon fisheries, the lack of good roads, the need of markets for agricultural products. The first question might be solved by the creation of a national fish preserve, but this would tend to create a monopoly among the canners already installed. On the question of roads, Secretary Wallace suggested that the Alaskans avail themselves of some $4,000,000 which they might have under the Federal Aid Road Act, but this would involve a conflict with the War Department, which likes to keep control of Alaskan...
Secretary Hoover proposed a plan to appoint additional Assistant Secretaries of various departments, who would reside in Alaska and take care of its problems on the spot. Many Alaskans look upon this proposal with suspicion, however, on the grounds that it would tend to bureaucracy, of which the Territory has already had too much. In brief, no cure-alls have been discovered to date...
This would put nomination entirely in the hands of the party leaders and would tend to deprive the politically backward South of representation in Parliament...