Word: hours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lungs normally excrete almost a quart of water a day, roughly 1% ounces an hour. Horn playing is not normal breathing, and in two hours' playing time a horn will act as a condenser and easily catch a glassful of water from the lungs, sir, not spit...
...Citrine, since 1926 Secretary General of the British Trades Union Congress, in the first of a series of monthly conferences on the two countries' labor problems. Last week the problems seemed to be all on the French side. Leader Jouhaux complained that his followers, theoretically on a 40-hour week, work 72. Though he claims nearly 1,000,000 members, he is allowed no representation in war ministries (as T. U. C. is in Britain). Strikes for wage increases, still permitted in Britain, are jail offenses in France. Last week's conference, besides airing these grievances, discussed ways...
...soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...
Uruguayan officials went aboard, found Spee's seaworthiness impaired, granted a 72-hour stay. Spee took on oxygen welding torches and steel plates and went to work. There was sad work to do, too. Sixty wounded men were treated: two went ashore to hospital. Thirty-six bodies were put into swastika-draped coffins, carried ashore, buried far from home...
...directors of the plan include: Economist Alvah Eugene Staley of Tufts Col lege; Manager Daniel Bloomfield of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Retail Trade board; Secretary J. Arthur Moriarty of the Boston Typographical Union; New England Wage & Hour Administrator Thomas H. Eliot. Medical directors (headed by Dr. Cabot) do not belong to Health Service, but are banded into a brother corporation called Medical and Surgical Associates. This group will ex amine and appoint about 100 doctors to serve subscribers; Health Service, Inc. will pay them...