Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless did quite well in his own small way. In 1929 the genial Harvey organized the General Theatres Equipment, Inc., to take over the business of six subsidiaries. The book value of the stock of the six companies was $4,759,000. Mr. Clarke felt this...
...Furthermore, the system of production should be brought down to a relatively small scale. Hollywood should be allowed to handle all the big shows, and the simple plots should be left to the stage. One's personality is lost in the big theatre with a large audience, for contact with the audience, which is essential to the success of a play, is so easy to lose. Sam Harris' production, 'As Thousands Cheer,' is, to my mind, the nearest approach to this desirable new formula, and I think it should be followed. The theater is a place where people should...
...Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea has become part of the modern, Russian's soul; it is the nation's expression if itself. The Soviet Union has been committed to the industrialization of the country of a socialist basis, to the collectivization of agriculture on a huge scale; there is no possibility of turning back...
...males. Better plan, say some, is to begin with $1,000 worth of breeding stock, add $300 to $500 worth during the first three years. Each female mink should produce two to ten kits a year. By the fourth year it is claimed that a successful breeder on this scale should begin making a yearly profit...
...writing since the death of James Gibbons Huneker. Excerpts : Edward Alden Jewell (Times) : "Yet if the Crucifixion be esteemed a truly inspired example of the Flemish miniaturist's artistry . . . full of a robust tenderness that climbs in the Christ to agonized sublimity . . . The Hell, monstrous on its minuscule scale, is terrific." Henry McBride (Evening Sun): "This submission to change involves the non-preferment of one century to another, Mais que voulez-vous? Human nature is weak, and possibly a little weaker just now than it has been for some time, so practically everybody on peering through the lens...