Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sugar. Senator Smoot accepted a sliding scale tariff for this most controversial item in the bill. Because his State, Utah, is a great producer of beet sugar; because the Mormon church, his church, is vitally interested in beet sugar, the sugar schedule was to have been Senator Smoot's well-protected pet. That he favored a sliding scale which he admitted would produce rates lower than those proposed in the House bill (3? per lb.), made even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed...
Rudolph Spreckels, head of Spreckels Sugar Corp., great refiners, had suggested the sliding scale sugar tariff and obtained for it the President's cautious approval. Complex in operation, its purpose would be to stabilize the retail price of sugar at 6? per lb. (present price: 5?). The tariff would run from 1? to 2.4? per lb. As the retail price of sugar went up, the tariff would go down and vice versa...
...Large scale customers for the products of Curtiss-Wright Corp. will be the great transport companies which Mr. Hoyt and Mr. Keys more or less dominate: Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American Airways), National Air Transport, Transcontinental Air Transport, Pitcairn Aviation, Inc.* Upon sailing for Europe last week Mr. Keys was meticulous in stating that these transport companies would not buy their equipment exclusively from their allied manufacturers...
...crossing watchmen must keep their little shacks trim and orderly, the engineers must carry repair kits and act as veterinaries for minor ailments of their Iron Horses. But all D. T. & I. employes are happy to do extra chores for they are paid above the standard railway scale...
...billion pounds of fish annually. The catch is valued at about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed cod but haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries trawlers have a capacity of 200,000 pounds of fish per trip. They keep in touch with home ports by wireless; bring...