Word: useful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a good Department of Medicine -why not use it for pertinent consultations...
...appointed to the Board eight months ago, with a reputation as a labor mediator. Dr. Leiserson stated the case for NLRB about as well as it has been stated. He denied that the Act needed amendment. He reminded the Committee of the conditions that brought about the Act-the use of labor spies, the discrimination against good union men, the tragedies of violence in labor disputes, the old hostility against labor legislation...
Because the Wagner Act holds the use of labor spies an unfair labor practice, members were interested in a blistering telegram sent by New York Regional Director Elinore Herrick to Chairman Madden: "I protest the method of investigation which has been pursued in the New York regional office . . . behind locked doors, in secrecy and in a thoroughly objectionable manner . . . the procedure one might expect from the OGPU...
...Eight railroads (five use the new Terminal station, only three the Union station rebuilt in 1871); seven airline routes (33 planes daily); 75 trucking lines; 845 factories (textiles, chemicals, fertilizer, furniture, paper, candy); 3,833 retail stores, 809 wholesale stores (annual net sales: $465,316,000); 81 public schools, 33 universities and colleges (total enrollment: 77,282); the South's busiest telephone exchange (636,000 long distance calls per month); 2,500 branches of national firms doing business in the South; a 221-square-mile "metropolitan" area, whose heart and centre is famed Five Points (where Peachtree intersects four...
...course will use the tools of economic analysis, applying them to the present problem. Economics of past wars; market organization, price control and rationing; money and banking in war times; the relation of money and public and private capital markets; and the relation of war to economic fluctuations will be dealt with in the lectures and reading...