Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only the actual Cuban government and publish all those horrors, that I assure you are augmented, as you have augmented the age of dear Miguel Mariano Gomez, making him a warrior of the '95 war! (Then he must have been-if he existed-a feeding baby!) By that scale you may see the augmentation of all this. Tropical temperament is very appassionate and in both ways they do politics with ardour. Do you know that actual oppositionists to government use to blow off with bombs concealed in automobiles etc. innocent citizens? Do you know that a poor woman...
...that outraged Manhattan bankers. Big State banks in New York talked covertly of seceding from the Federal Reserve System rather than submit to such a levy. Even big national banks might exchange their Federal charters for State charters to escape from the Reserve. Such a withdrawal on a large scale might well wreck the whole Federal Reserve System and end an era in central bank history. On the other hand friends of the deposit guarantee loudly claimed that it would tend to drive all nonmember State banks into the Federal Reserve and create one national system, as no bank could...
...reserve of the Federal Reserve Banks and by ½ of 1% of the deposits of the Reserve member banks. Whether assessments would really stop there was the big worry of big bankers. Effective July 1, 1934 the Federal Board would insure deposits on the following scale...
...down past Knoxville and Chattanooga, dips into Alabama at Muscle Shoals, turns north through the rolling farm lands of Tennessee and Kentucky and comes to an end at Paducah on the Ohio. In this vast basin the U. S. Government is not only going into business on a grand scale but is inviting U. S. Industry to join it in a project which may change the whole economic character of the central South...
Most termite colonies are divided into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These...