Word: hours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigators have found that employees, who in some extreme cases have been paid only two cents an hour, have been afraid to tell of their plight out of lean of losing their jobs. "For them free speech is just an ideal dream," said the young politician...
...Hine, the one-half hour experience of handling the "stick" was "good fun." He stated that despite the 60-mile wind he had little difficulty with the new airplane...
...will then join in an open meeting with the Citizens' Union of Massachusetts at 8 o'clock when Thomas Eliot, New England Director, Wage and Hour Administration, and Orville Poland, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee, will speak on the subject: "War, the Dies Committee, and Civil Liberties...
...last summer, when it moved to Westchester's Glen Island Casino, things began to happen. Within five months Glenn Miller's band was causing more rug-dust to fly, making more phonograph records, and playing more radio dates than Goodman and Shaw together. Last month the Chesterfield Hour conferred swing's Pulitzer Prize on Miller by signing him up to take Paul Whiteman's place, beginning Dec. 27. Last week Trombonist Miller, now undisputed King of Swing, went back to play a week's engagement, just for old times' sake, at the Meadowbrook Club...
Previous experience for candidates is not necessary, authorities pointed out, "yet after only nine months, with only 215 hours in the air, they are at the controls of a 400-mile-an-hour pursuit ship, or looking down from the heights of a giant 'Flying Fortress' rearing through...