Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expenses, will require a tax increase of about 3,500,000,000 francs ($175,000,000). This is to be made up: 1) by increasing schedule taxes (roughly equivalent to normal income taxes in the U. S.); 2) by increasing the tax on unproductive capital; 3) by a sliding-scale tax on all revenue from capital (roughly equivalent to surtaxes in the U. S.) up to a maximum...
Since the election almost a year ago, market trading has been on a greatly expanded scale. Up to Sept. 1, total sales there in 100-share lots have aggregated about 358,759,900 shares. This figure, however, does not include numerous "odd lot" transactions in from 1 to 99 shares, which contribute about a third again as many shares sold. As a result, true total sales on the Exchange since election have amounted close to 500,000,000 shares altogether...
...present, agreement between the anthracite operators and mine workers expires Aug. 31, 1925. Your Scale Committee, charged with the responsibility of making a new contract has been unable to arrive at any understanding as effecting wages or conditions of employment to be effective after Aug. 31, 1925. Therefore, our membership in Districts Nos. 1, 7 and 9 is advised that no contract being in effect a suspension of mining will automatically take place at midnight, Monday...
...Your Scale Committee will continue to exercise every influence to bring about, if possible, a general agreement which will mean substantial progress for the anthracite mine workers. We will endeavor from time to time to keep you fully advised as to the situation. We hope that the utmost co-operation will be exercised between our membership and the Scale Committee...
...Cooper's blueprints contain his plans (published last week) for an ancient scheme never yet effected on a large scale-"letting the ocean do the work." Along the Pacific Coast one occasionally sees a battery of barrels or floating cylinders sapping a mite of Ocean's strength as they are slid up and down on ratchets by the incoming rollers. There are still visible along the Atlantic Coast, relics of crude paddle-wheel tide mills, which worked only with the falling tides and kept their operators up at annoying hours as the tide changed its time of fluctuation...