Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposed to musical performance, heard such typical papers as The So-Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy of us is that . . . between culture and ignorance...
...economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will of men. For this reason faith in the Universal Church is the very basis of work towards a better order. . . ." The board concluded its statement with a seven-point program for the church in time of war. It urged...
...That the churches should work, in such ways as are open to them, for a just peace. . . . Mass hatred is difficult to check, but the churches must make the effort...
...shipyards, already busy (62,000 men in Navy yards and 50,000 in private yards), were invited to bid on about 152,000 tons of new shipping (approximately 1,700,000 man-hours of work are required to build an average 6,400-ton cargo vessel). Bethlehem Steel increased the working hours of 20,000 employes at its Sparrows Point (Maryland) shipbuilding division, at Staten Island planned to hire 2,000 more...
...Railroads, which in recent years have been employing fewer men than even in 1931, began to show signs of rehiring. Pennsylvania put 1,560 to work, Louisville & Nashville 650, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 200. In the Pittsburgh area alone, 1,800 furloughed employes were recalled to handle steel and coal shipments. B. & 0. recalled 800 men for repairing and building cars & locomotives. Pennsylvania estimated that it would require 4,000 more men to repair freight cars, 2,000,000 man-hours of work on passenger cars, locomotives and new freight cars...