Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sociologist feels, as does the Teachers' Union, that the policy concerning appointments ought to be more flexible in regard to salaries and rank. He objects to the automatic increase of salaries for instructors and associate professors, saying, "Instead of this automatic and mechanical increase, a more flexible scale of remuneration, non-Automatic but based on the merit of the instructor or professor, appears to be more advisable...
Solution: Leave things alone. "At $80,000,000,000 [national income] the income from the present taxes will be sufficient to meet expenditures on the present scale-and actually to reduce our relief appropriations...
...gifts Now I would like to post this question to the good people who are making these requests: How can an alderman satisfy them and yet remain honest? . . . With an alderman's salary what it is [$5,000], if he does make these contributions on any appreciable scale, he is almost literally forced into the 'racket...
...until a small-scale war between British troops and roving Arab guerrillas had developed did the British decide that final settlement of the Palestine problem could wait no longer. First British proposals, rejected by both Jews and Arabs and later abandoned by their sponsors, were for a partition of Palestine into separate Arab, Jewish and British-mandated territories. When this failed, Arab and Jewish delegations were brought to London to find a compromise. When these talks petered out "His Majesty's Government felt free to formulate their owrn policy...
...coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects of the strike will continue to be evident in chart and index for weeks to come...