Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the first chill of the fifth Depression Winter hung in the air. While the Federal Government was preparing to bring relief to 3,253,000 jobless families (1,500,000 less than last year) on a scale unparalleled since hard times began, in Manhattan President Roosevelt made a speech which warned the nation that the Government could not possibly handle the job alone, that local governments and private charity would again have to do their share...
Alcoa went on record at the hearing as the first industry to ask for minimum wages lower than the existing scale-25? an hour for a 40-hour week against 30?. Pressed for details on former wages, Vice President Winthrop Neilson stated that Alcoa was paying as low as 20? an hour or $8 a week until it voluntarily jumped to 22? "in an attempt to cooperate in re-employment." When Alcoa signed NRA's blanket code, wages were boosted to 30? an hour. "We accepted 30? an hour for what we hoped would be a very brief period...
...gallery should be modelled on a smaller scale, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Located at a convenient place in Boston, it would be supported by the public directly and by the museums, and it would be administered by a professional director, competent in the field. Such an organization would have a continued existence and a definite policy guaranteed. In consequence, it would exert a greater influence upon society at large than can the present organization...
President Roosevelt was determined to try credit inflation on a grand scale before shifting to currency inflation. The success of his NRA campaign depended on ample easy money for the withering capital industries. To this end he held a series of White House conferences last week. One concrete proposal: let R. F. C. go into the market, purchase millions & millions of dollars worth of railroad equipment, lease it to the carriers. The President called in steelmasters, tried to induce them to reduce the price of rails...
...Works Administrator declared: "All we can do is to ask you to 'Get on your mark! Get set! Go!' We can give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world but we're not dropping taxpayers' money into the hat of a blind...