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...President Roosevelt called him to Hyde Park, told him his new duties, assured the Press 'there isn't any other story behind this.''* ¶ The NRA campaign kept intruding itself into the President's vacation most of the week. He signed trade codes for wool textiles, electrical goods, women's cloaks & suits. He approved Administrator Johnson's temporary settlement of the Penn sylvania coal strike (see p. 11). He announced the Government's readiness to adjust its contracts with NRA subscribers confronted with higher manufacturing costs. He wrote a letter...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...
...Philippine mahogany. In West Coast logging camps the minimum rate was to be $20.40 for 48 hours. This code made a bow toward forestry conservation but General Johnson said he would not even consider a 48-hour week. Employers insisted their pay rates were nearly double current levels. Wool Textiles. A shade above the cotton code, the wool code provided for a 40-hour week, with $14 as minimum pay in the North. $13 in the South. Machines were limited to two weekly shifts of 40 hours each. Child labor was banned. Oil. Price and production control still...
...Europe, riding high, running dry, sailed by full crews of crack sailors, by masters who drove their ships under full sail all the way.∙ They carried tea and gold in a hurry. Last of the cargoes now carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet of Finnish, Swedish and German windjammers has set out for Britain from Australia, scupper-deep...
...Famed clippers: James Baines, Red Jacket, Lightning, Cutty Sark, Sovereign of the Seas. Best time from Liverpool to Australia: the Thermopylae's 63 days, 18 hours. Later and much slower were the iron & steel wool clippers, the still later four-masted barques competing with steam...