Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assist in dispelling fear in the hearts of some people and restoring confidence in the mind of the American business man," said Senator Harrison, but the President's speech made it sound like "a monstrous tax bill," designed to let big taxpayers escape; on the contrary the first thing the bill did was positive-it erased the inequity of the old tax law by letting small businesses pay debts and meet deficits before levying on their undistributed profits, and by exempting all businesses earning less than...
...revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within two years to 40 hours. It did not provide the one thing Mr. Cox and his fellow Southerners had liked about its predecessor: provisions for a differential to make the South's wage floor lower and its hour ceiling higher than the North...
...more jobs, more education and guidance, more fun for Youth. Its warning: ''Unpleasant stories are told of operators of coal properties who . . . mine only the richer veins and leave the smaller ones to cave in. This coal, it is said, is forever lost. Somehow this sort of thing reminds us that youth, too, never comes again...
...began to set them up. Soon they came by tens, then twenties. Mr. Balaban ran out of straws, glasses, soda, ice cream. By nightfall no good little boys and girls had claimed their prizes. Druggist Balaban prudently withdrew his offer. Meanwhile School Superintendent Leon Nelson Neulen sniffed: "The important thing is how long they will maintain their good behavior record...
...tracing back this ancient peculiarity, scientists may find that the ordinary lead atom carries within it at least a partial record of physical and chemical development when the earth was young. For one thing, a continuation of this study promises to reveal important clues as to the mechanism of the formation of lead ores...