Word: third-class
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...people get the jitters when the word 'strike' is mentioned? Is it so terrible that people leave work and refuse to come back until they get something they want?"-Madam Secretary Perkins to newshawks last week in Cleveland. Asked what was the difference between a first-and third-class strike, she offered definitions...
...Third-Class Strike-one in which there is headbusting. First-Class Strike-one where the workers are perfectly organized, know exactly what they want and how to go about getting it without busting heads...
...beings do eel anything from a mild uneasiness to a frantic, sickening urge to escape when cooped up in a room, train, subway, elevator, cave, tunnel. Stirred by the Parker case, Britishers testified in letters to the London Times. Wrote Editor F. P. Carroll of The Hospital: "With a third-class purse, I have to travel first-class on the Southern Railway because otherwise I should be caught constantly in the middle of a closely-packed carriage. More than once, when travelling 'third' I have had to tight my way out, in a condition approaching frenzy. ..." When...
...still with them was a helpful device known as the Rule of Three. Postmasterships are divided into four grades depending upon the annual receipts of their offices: first class, receipts above $40,000; second class, $8,000 to $40,000; third class, $1,500 to $8,000; fourth class, below $1,500. At the last counting there were 1,122 first-class postal jobs, 3,425 second-class, 10,485 third-class, 32,672 fourth-class-a total of 47,704. By law the President appoints the first three grades, mostly on the say-so of interested Senators or Representatives...
...wise decrees. In more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted to issue a characteristic decree. Bus rates hereafter must be 15% more than the corresponding third-class railway fare...