Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table; you will be reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold for 4½?. We say in America in some places a pound-loaf sold for 4? (see paragraph 2)-made in the cleanest bakeries and the highest wage scale in the world. (Note:-Shoes from Czechoslovakia, light globes from Japan, shirts from England, all sell below American prices. Are we seeking to hold the American Standard-or drop to the foreign level...
...good clothes and almost as indifferent to statistics, he is a trader with a cold eye for a market profit. Totally lacking in the flush speculator's flair for spending but showing a magnificent willingness to take risks, he has been long and short on a big scale in most commodities, many stocks. He engages extensively in the very risky business of writing puts and calls. He made a fortune (reputedly $2,000,000) in the post-War boom, was cleaned out in 1921. Since then he has been credited with several killings, debited with severe beatings. Last year...
...Chicago the hotel was bigger than other hotels, and grander. There were pipes without end for cold water which ran hot. and for hot water which would not run at all. . . . Men in those regions . . . make their plans on a large scale, and they who come after them fill up what has been wanting at first. Those taps of hot and cold water will be made to run by the next owner ... if not by the present."-Anthony Trollope...
...studied under Moldrem, several in Germany. The orchestras in Eureka and Hollywood set the pattern. Karl Moldrem teaches each child individually. First and often the most difficult step for the children is to learn the first seven letters of the alphabet in order to identify the notes of the scale. The mothers have to learn that there is no money in the orchestra for them or their offspring...
...been a pioneer in the extremely lucrative insurance business of Hartford, Conn. John Pierpont Morgan went to New York as a private banker. In 1894 he took partners forming the present firm. In the following years, as everyone knows, he performed dazzling feats of finance on a scale unprecedented. These included the formation of U. S. Steel and many another of the greatest corporations which have made a large part of industrial history since. When he died, his son inherited most of a $68,000,000 estate and magnificent art treasures. But what made his inheritance unique and vastly more...