Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already the textile code forbids unreasonable "stretch-out," and requires collective bargaining. As for higher wages and shorter hours, an NRA investigation recently resulted in a report that the indus-try could not afford them under present conditions...
...lumber the hardwood forests of the Appalachian hillsides and the Mississippi Valley have a code which, as codes go, is a good one. The mill owners lived happily under it for nearly a year. Among other things it provides for production control, cost protection, hard & fast minimum prices. And for an industry which has no less than 5,800 members in its trade association and code authority, the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, there was surprisingly little chiseling...
...chiseling there was, particularly on prices, and enough to annoy the responsible lumberman who lived up to the code. Prices were revised in July, some up, some down. The upped prices hit the hardwood men's best customer, the automobile industry...
...looks forward eventually to turning NRA over to business, allowing the Government merely to keep tab on how business behaves. Mr. Richberg thinks of regulation not in terms of self-regulation but in terms of such regulation as is imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Instead of turning codes more and more back to industry he may well favor putting representatives of the Government and of labor on code authorities. "A middle course between the anarchy of unplanned, undisciplined industrialism and the tyranny of State control," is his concept of NRA's function?a middle course, perhaps, but far from...
...teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office in a day, he returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave him the script of The Criminal Code, told him to come back next morning with complete sketches and blue prints for the stage design. Prodigy Johnson bent to this mighty task, appeared next morning with the work. He had subordinated detail to mass and form, and his designs not only were accepted but assured him overnight...