Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in an executive order President Roosevelt prescribed wage scales for the work relief program. Dividing the nation into four regions-Deep South, Middle South, Central States, Northern States-he established rates based upon five population classifications ranging from rural districts and towns under 5,000 to cities over 100,000. Categories of workers: unskilled, intermediate, skilled, professional and technical. Lowest pay will be $19 per month for unskilled rural labor in the Deep South; highest, $94 for Northern professional city workers. Pay will be on a monthly basis, with no deduction for interruptions such as caused...
...tanks which contain corrosive gases; pure, unyielding platinum, gold and silver to line tubes and machinery; porous bricks which act as heat insulators; shipping highly reactive compounds of sodium in tank cars so full that no air or water can get in to deteriorate them; production on a vast scale at Wilson Dam of phosphatic fertilizers cheap enough to persuade Tennessee Valley farmers to refresh their exhausted, eroding soil...
...They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need occurs to conserve U. S. fuel supplies. But to build...
...dollars on relief and reconstruction. However, all but the most infatuated followers of the various pied pipers recognize the necessity of paying the bills. Mr. Morgenthau gave no indication that his government had any plan for doing so. What the present budget would look like if placed on a scale is indescribable, but it seems safe to say that its lack of balance is the red handwriting the businessmen of the country have been seeing on the wall...
...head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns the biggest corn farm in the world...