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...House hoppers went identical bills amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, lifting its 40?minimum hourly wage to 65? (and to 75?after two years). The work week would drop to 40 hours when 75? was reached. Industry committees, under special circumstances, could drive basic pay rates upward even faster...
Readers of this random biography may not be so sure. In throwing together the uncooked condiments of Raw Material, the 44-year-old author of Laughing Boy, Sparks Fly Upward, and The Enemy Gods has plainly been compounding medicine for his own ego. As in a painter's sketchbook, he has drawn the scenes that have caught his fancy: sailing, rowing, his first expedition to the Arizona Indian country, the wonderful new world of New Orleans, where nobody had ever heard of a La Farge or a Grottie and a girl told him frankly, "I like you. I think...
...When TIME put Hirohito on its cover in 1932, the Japanese made the following request: "Let copies of the present issue lie face upward on all tables; let no object be placed upon the likeness of the Emperor...
...case, profits from war production were approaching the Great Divide in the first quarter. The long climb which had carried earnings steadily upward in the booming war years was leveling out (see chart). As the V-E day cutbacks in war production melted away the once mountainous backlogs, war profits would drop...
...story of one year in the life of a family of Texas cotton farmers: a sad, querulous, disintegrating old woman (Beulah Bondi), a young man (Zachary Scott), his wife (Betty Field) and their small children. This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming. They are not, like the people in The Grapes of Wrath, caught in historical currents greater and crueler than they can fathom or successfully fight; mainly they are involved in a contest with the land and the seasons...