Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the various exhibitions of violence in the day's news, two items stand out above the rest. Down in the pleasant, palm-strewn island of Cuba, a native brand of hell burst out in full vigor as civil war recommenced on a sizeable scale. The fight centered about the several armories, police-station, and forts which dot the mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems...
...American Newspaper Publishers Association he described the NRA as "a handicap and not a help to recovery." He did not specify his objections but said: "The NRA is simply a program of social better ment, nothing else; and industry can accept and endure this program on a large scale only after it has recovered, not before. ... As a matter of fact, it is universally impracticable, and if persisted in will become universally detrimental. . . . It would seem to me ... in view of the fact that the NRA is a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties, a danger to American ideals...
More than 1,000 mi. of new railways have been built, copper and gold mines brought into production and the Government is buying tractors and developing agriculture on a near-Soviet scale...
...printer is used. If a print were made directly from the negative, the finished product would give the appearance of an inclined plane. However, the negative is placed in the printer at such an angle that the final photograph, which is shaped like a Maltese cross, gives the same scale on the wing photographs as in the center. The Germans have tried a camera with nine lenses, in connection with this work, but due to the short focal length, the scale is rather small, and the results not so good...
Publication of the code brought a new shower of protests. The mail order houses abruptly reversed their position when they discovered that NRA economists had changed "invoice price" to "wholesale price." That would mean that Sears, Roebuck or Montgomery, Ward would not get the full benefit of their huge-scale buying. When "invoice price" was reinstated and the rest of the section simplified, they fell back into rank-but grumbling that the whole thing was unworkable...