Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Court. "The movement to make international justice practicable and serviceable," wrote he, "is not subject to partisan considerations. ... At this period in international relationships, when every act is of moment to the future of world peace, the U. S. has an opportunity to throw its weight into the scale of peace...
...apiece. President Cowen, nearly always one jump ahead of U. S. railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific's crack M-IOOOI-the first toy train built absolutely to scale (1/45th). Orders began streaming in by the thousands. Last week in Newark, U. S. District Judge Guy L. Fake, congratulating the receivers on their prompt rehabilitation of the company, terminated the receivership, handed the company back to its management with liquid assets greatly increased. All creditors had been paid in full within...
Unemployment Insurance. A Federal tax on payrolls will finance the plan. The rate will scale up to 3% in 1938. In any year an employer may deduct up to 90% from his payroll tax for the amount he pays into his State's unemployment insurance fund. The States, within limits, will be permitted to figure out their own insurance plans, but the funds collected must be deposited for safekeeping in the U. S. Treasury. Suggested plan for State adoption...
...irritated by this state of affairs, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wheeled into action the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, prime financial mystery of the New Deal. Operating through the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the Stabilization Fund waded into the market, bought French francs on a vast scale, took some of the starch out of the perky dollar...
...System to their own ends, they should be warned that no jeopardizing of the interests of others will be tolerated, and that considerable money can be saved by restricting the System to those who will profit by it. The System must not be allowed to degenerate into a large-scale cramming outfit. But there is far more danger that an order from above imposing strict regulations as to hours and material to be covered will make of the Tutorial Conference a routine appointment. A careful reading of Dean Murdock's Report gives a distinct impression that the fundamental issue...