Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, the Metropolitan must contribute an additional $100,000, besides campaigning to increase subscriptions for next year by at least 10%. Then, in addition to the 14 weeks of winter opera at the old price-scale ($7 top), there must be a supplementary "popular" season in which young U. S. singers can air their talents and perhaps earn a winter engagement. (Cynical wiseacres suspected that graduates of the Juilliard Music School would find the way to the Metropolitan stage easier than other young aspirants would...
...most effective and economical means of combination. Over outright merger or consolidation, they have the advantage that they can be backed out of if the proposed combination is unsatisfactory. They form a complete concentration of the management and control of an industry without the increasing inefficiencies of large scale business. They are a useful instrument. It is poor logic to abolish them as a whole because some men have abused them in the past...
Granting again a temporary injunction to 35 western Kentucky soft coal operators against the code authority's enforcement of its minimum wage scale, Judge Dawson ruled: "Whenever the Government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way, that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen; and that interference takes the form of exacting payment of wages in excess of what the citizen is willing to pay. To the extent of the increased wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation...
...Sloan comes out "forcibly" against the asparagus fern, whose "color, texture and scale are all bad." White roses, says she, "are never wholly successful. Even the best fade very rapidly, almost before they open." The button chrysanthemum she finds one of the few small flowers which look well on the Lord's table. "Once we used button chrysanthemums in yellow and deep bronze with dark red oak leaves at the base. Very Spanish, when seen at close range; but the colors were massed in such a way that from a distance they looked like two lovely flames...
...what: "Currency or credit? Some of one, some of the other, but not currency inflation on any grand big scale. Probably credit inflation on a really big scale-main thing to watch...