Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...
...nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
...unemployed at 5,600,000, contrasting with his estimate of 3,700,000 a year ago. Although United States Steel's estimated payroll of 220,000 compared well with the 229,585 of May 1930, the number of workers throughout the industry had been greatly reduced and the "stagger" system of part time work had become universal. The Department of Commerce's index of employment in the iron & steel industry was at 72.4% in July against 87.3% a year before. The result is a large "floating surplus" in steel towns. If the 517,000 steel workers whose...
...Steel could show, for example, that through two years of Depression it had been paying its then normal hourly rate even though fading earnings pro claimed the need of lower production costs. It had, for the first time in any depression, widely adopted the "stagger system," part-time work for as many men as possible. It had cut its salaries and its dividend, yet from October 1930 to August 1931 its number of employes had dropped only 6%. During this time out put fell 27% to 31% of capacity...
...meeting two days after U. S. Steel, Bethlehem reduced its common dividend from $4 yearly to $2, but took no action on wages. To date President Farrell's vehement declaration last year, "Oh, no! Wages in the steel industry are not coming down," remains uncontradicted, though the "stagger system," whereby more men work fewer hours, has been generally adopted. In wages, as in price cuts, bulky earnest Mr. Farrell has so far been able to marshal his colleagues. The near future may see another test of his leadership...