Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Union Telegraph Co. last week announced that it might have to fire 3,125 messenger boys. Luther Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal...
...workers employed in interstate commerce less than 25? an hour. The statutory work week became 44 hours. It was not illegal to work a longer week; it-was simply more expensive for employers, who thereafter would have to pay 1½ the regular rate for overtime. Big Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard wages and the legal...
...factor, be feels, "is the extent to which it has been possible to set up a real industrial base in Szochuan, sufficient to supply some sort of army in the field. This is naturally linked with other unanswered items such as the condition of the land supply routes from Western China to Russia and to Burma...
...George Halas' Chicago Bears, runners-up in the National Football League last year: a game against their archrivals, the Chicago Cardinals, 34-to-28, before 21,000 spectators; at Wrigley Field, Chicago. With four victories and one defeat, the Bears last week led the Western Division of the league...
This first novel moves at such a rate, contains so many fights, explosions, ambushes, traps, gun battles and get aways that even devoted lovers of adventure stories are likely to find themselves dazed by it. It begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...