Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should the Temporary Employment Plan, now financed at the rate of $40,000 a year, be carried on into 1934-35, there is every likelihood that it will be conducted on a scale considerably closer to $10,000 than to $40,000 unless President Conant's plan is a success...
...lacking in generosity, and they can probably be counted on to continue to show it. Intensive and successful drives have been recently conducted in order to build chapels and business schools; it is surely not too much to ask that the same thing be done on a minor scale in order to make possible the continued existence of a system that is not only highly meritorious but highly necessary as well...
...hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully measured and photographed. When he got back to Hollywood he had the outside of the Johnson house reproduced in full scale (see cut) while interior scenes were made to suggest the big boxlike rooms of Redcliffe. Against this carefully assembled background he was able to do a picture that smacks and smells of the South of 30 years...
...hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect, and, if the demand had not been made upon him he was experienced and able enough to have managed the Insull machine through a period of reduced income...
...sliding scale of taxes on capital gains (100% of gains on property sold within one year of purchase will be taxable as income, 80% of gains on property sold within two years, 60% of gains on property sold after two and within five years, 40% of gains on property sold after five years...