Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure to make the second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...
Refusal of the plasterers' union to accept a cut in the wages of workmen employed on the new Memorial Chapel will not cause the completion of the building to fall materially behind schedule, R. K. Lamb '28, secretary for information, stated yesterday. The contractors themselves will continue the work of plastering with the assistance of a few unskilled laborers...
...undertaking of public enterprises in reality do not "create" work. For the money which the public will spend on bonds for these government undertakings will be diverted from other channels and in a sense the government is morely taking money out of the pockets of the already established workmen to put it in the pockets of those now unemployed. Only insofar as the money spent on bonds is that which is now boarded, will there be a material increase in the total amount of money in circulation, and how much of this there will be cannot be safely predicted...
...brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness the shouting workmen build Sotstroy. The babel of their confusion will be subdued by no primeval stillness but by their machinery's steady...
...small to take any chances, the tiny Neutral Republic of Andorra (18 mi. long, 17 mi. wide) declared martial law and mobilized its sturdiest citizens when a few "foreign workmen" (Spanish) struck last week on a small hydraulic...