Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crops worth $900,000,000 lost. To meet this calamity a National Flood Relief Commission was established to furnish relief to those suffering from the flood, and to provide for the repair of the broken dykes, and the building of them upon such a higher, larger, and stronger scale, that future floods might be prevented. Much foreign financial aid was sent to China at this time, and Sir John Hope Simpson was sent by the League of Nations to direct the work of this Commission. As indicating the magnitude of the preventive work to be undertaken, and the part played...
...Players. Professional football players' salaries scale down from $10,000 per season to an average of about $1,500. A few famed college players have, as professionals, justified their amateur reputations. Illinois' Red Grange has been in the Chicago backfield for eight years. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski has been the outstanding fullback of the League for the past five years. N. Y. U.'s Ken Strong is a Giant regular as is Michigan's Harry Newman. In his first season as a professional, Tennessee's Beattie Feathers has made an unprecedented record by gaining over...
...which believes that sound recovery must wait on private capital, which opposes huge Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes in "letting the Government do it" rather than in the Moffett philosophy of "let business have a chance first." Last week these two basic...
...sound they do not work out that way in practice. When England put a new insurance law in force last summer, she made the Government responsible for relief. To keep the insurance fund solvent its payments to any one man are limited to about 26 weeks (on a sliding scale) in any one year and the number of weeks he gets benefits decreases as time goes on. Under the blueprint Ohio plan benefit payments were limited to 16 weeks in any one year. Wisconsin, with "reserves" instead of insurance, limits benefits to ten weeks a year-the lesser number...
Protesting this Tory sop to the proletariat, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury snapped: "Sooner or later a return must be made to the policy of large scale public works laid down by our [Labor] Government...