Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sullen employes became her loyal partners. Up went efficiency and profits but down on her came the wrath of the industry. Led by the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., her competitors started a cutthroat price war. With a high wage scale, Operator Roche was not prepared to fight. Her friends fought for her. Employes volunteered to lend half their pay for three months. Colorado unionists launched a State-wide sales campaign for her coal. Her opponents crawled from the field...
Last week he was not ready to announce the Eastern Utopians' scale of initiation fees and dues but he indignantly repudiated the idea that his plan was a racket. Said he: "I'd be ashamed of a racket that didn't pay any better than this. We get only a bare living. We all sacrifice something to serve. Being opposed to the profit system, we couldn't very well exist for the purpose of making a profit, could we? True, our revenue is considerable, but...the administration expense is heavy...
...cost housing, to prime the pump of heavy industry which refused to be primed by the first $3,300,000,000 appropriated last year. Such a program was discussed about the White House in astronomical terms of billions of dollars. Prime point was govern-ment spending on such a scale as the country had never before dreamed...
...Continuation, on an enlarged scale, of the present system, a mixture of dole and work relief that now costs about $142,000,000 a month...
...unexciting bourgeois comfort. When he was an oldster he was kindly, simple, generous to charities and other painters. He once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...