Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
Elmer Andrews' lawyers have also filed six civil suits, obtained four settlements in workers' favor by consent decrees. At the maximum, defendants in civil actions may be compelled to pay their employes twice the difference between substandard wages and the wages due under the act. In practice, when an employer consents to settle without trial, he may get off by paying the actual difference (plus court costs...
...Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard wages and the legal minima, plus an equal amount in damages. And he may have to pay a fine up to $10,000, spend up to six months in jail...
...These inevitably caused more accidents. Less than 1% provide what experts now recognize as a fundamental necessity - automatic means to correct the driver's mistakes. Nearly 97% of the primary system, which today carries 65% of U. S. traffic, is two-lane high way, standard 15 years ago, substandard now. To cure medial friction state highway engineers invented the three-lane road. This proved the most murderous of all roads as drivers fought for the middle lane. Multi-lane roads lessened medial friction, but caused more internal-stream and intersectional crashes...
...were as good as married. Conference air grew tense as slim, spry Dr. Dickinson declared: "The doctors are too timid to face the situation. These couples are not promiscuous. Only three had gone beyond the one man-one woman relationship. They are so faithful that they have developed a substandard of morality, such as we would not have believed possible...