Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford had supported President Hoover in the campaign. His defiance of the NRA would strike at the heart of the President's recovery program. General Johnson was deeply troubled. He did not want to risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code's weakened any boycott appeal. And there remained a chance that, when he did announce his plans, sly old Henry Ford, again with the White House for his amplifier, would outdo the NRA and his competitors in other respects than hours & wages...
...already poor standing with President Roosevelt who as Governor of New York ousted Sheriff Thomas ("Tin Box'') Farley because he could not adequately explain his large income. Governor Roosevelt laid down this rule: "Where a public official is under inquiry and it appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive public duty to the community to give a reasonable or credible explanation of the sources of the deposits or the source which enables him to maintain the scale of living beyond the amount...
...sugar production. Their sugar bonds, debentures and stocks, bought for some $600,000,000, are worth today less than $50,000,000, and at that the U.S. investor has been lucky. Small Cuban producers, unable to compete with the big corporate plantations, have been ruined on a nationwide scale, driven to suicide and beggary. As the able lawyer representing Cuba's sugar interests, tall, stalwart, snowy-crested Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne put through the International Agreement ("Chadbourne Plan"), running from 1930 to 1935, by which its signatories-Cuba. Java and the European beet sugar bloc (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium...
...slaughter in 46 days of 4,000,000 pigs of 100 lb. or less, thus preventing their glutting the market later at twice their weight. To induce sales, packers would pay above-the-market prices on a sliding scale from $9 per cwt. for 40-pounders or less down to $6 per cwt. for animals between...
...sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew was 40. The next decade, the decade of the Spanish War, was greater for Andrew. In the war boom he turned promoter on a grand scale. He merged coal properties around Pittsburgh (many of them Mellon owned) into two great companies and sold their stock to the public. He merged the Pittsburgh traction companies (many of them Mellon owned). T. Mellon & Sons private bank became Mellon National. Andrew and Frick got an option on Carnegie Steel...