Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...region of the fertile Mohawk Valley which winds eastward across the State. 200 mi. north of the city. By regulation of the State Milk Control Board created last winter by the Legislature, the dairy farmers in this as in other sections of the State are paid on a sliding scale of prices, depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked by the Milk Board's refusal...
...entire Navy program be executed in government yards. Then was Presi dent Roosevelt able to sign and promulgate NRA's second code in six weeks, providing for a 32-hour week in shipyards doing government work, 36 hours in others, with a 35?-to-45? minimum wage scale...
...will have to be tried. ... It is the rainbow of hope against the black clouds of chaos and if these clouds gather once more, no other democratic recourse will be open to us but the calling of a Constitutional Convention to allow economic planning on a more effective national scale...
Operating on a smaller scale than during the regular year means less profit especially during the summer sine the rate is a dollar lower for the twenty-one meals a week. Certainly the University Dining Halls know enough economics to avoid a loss for one period in the hope that in the end the deflcit will be covered, and certainly the summer school is eager to stay out of the red this year. It is not unreasonable to suppose that somewhere there must be a sacrifice for economy...
...appoint what is known as the Tennessee Valley Authority to include completion of the huge Muscle Shoals project and to develop on a tremedous scale the natural resources of the Tennessee Valey--an admittedly bold national experiment...