Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eager to be thanked again on the 1929 scale, Hawaii made much of the delights to be offered to President Roosevelt and to any one else with $150 for round-trip steamship fare. One theme on which territorial boosters harped heavily: Hawaii is an integral part...
...conclusion, Sir John read to the House a cablegram from Premier Mussolini throwing Italy's full weight into the scale with Britain, France and Russia. Playing his stern godfather role to the limit Sir John cabled to Berlin and Warsaw, instructing His Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
...Auto, Paris sportpaper, founded the race in 1903 as a circuit of the Auvergne highlands, enlarged it by stages to its present scale. L'Auto foots the bills for meals & lodging, furnishes to each contestant his bicycle, as many tires as he can wear out, $2.64 per day for pin-money. This year publicity-seeking merchants have scraped up 800,000 francs ($52,800) for prizes. The winner of each of the 23 daily laps gets 1,.000 francs...
...cinema which attracts 6,000 Fair visitors daily but he shrewdly outmaneuvered General Motors, whose concession to have an actual assembly line on the Fair grounds was exclusive. To compose his music authoritatively Mr. Ludig visited Ford plants, discovered that their music "was in a sort of whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle gave him trouble until he found he could reproduce it by a piccolo, clarinet, oboe and tuba chord...
...that no loans may be made to a company if it can borrow from commercial banks. Chair-man Jones's regulations were even more stringent: 1) Loans will be made primarily to supply working capital as opposed to fixed capital, but may not be used for large scale expansion or to finance exports or imports. 2) As long as any part of a loan is outstanding, the borrowing company may not pay dividends, salaries or bonuses which the RFC considers unreasonable. 3) The borrower must agree not to spend any of his loan on machinery, equipment or services supplied...