Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Commerce in convention assembled. A businessman's brief talk to businessmen was the President's speech (see p. 41). His prime request: "I ask you to refrain from further reduction in the wages of your employes and also to increase your wage scales in conformity with and simultaneous with the rise of the level of commodity prices. The average wage scale has gone down more rapidly than the cost of living. [It] should be brought back to meet the cost of living and this process should begin now and not later...
...permanently deprived of the soil in which it lived. . . . I alone will have the full direction of the labor front, which is to be newly constructed." Again carefully following the Mussolini model, Nazification did not stop with the seizure of the unions. At the other end of the economic scale it was announced that the powerful Federation of German Industries had been Nazified too. It was not necessary to send Storm Troopers to call on the tycoons. After a brief conference in the Chancellery it was announced that none less than Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, head...
...soldiers into the empty villages the Japanese had evacuated. His 50,000 became "truculent," claimed a grand Chinese victory. Last week the Japanese Foreign Office called this situation "ambiguous," "intolerable." It announced Japan had already given "the only warnings that will be given of the outbreak of large scale hostilities immediately north of Peiping." Meanwhile the retreating Japanese had made a left swing, showed up north of Peiping. To squelch Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers the new advance will "probably be on a larger scale than heretofore, requiring the special sanction of the Emperor...
...Russian position will be definitely along defensive lines, since the internal stress, coupled with food shortage make military operations on a grand scale most impracticable. Furthermore, the Japanese war machine has proven itself to be well groomed; and for embryonic Communism to risk itself over a few extra-territorial possessions seems ludicrous...
...last month, they did so on condition that the Academy, after conferring with producers, should set a date for full salaries to be resumed. Only studio which did not keep the bargain was Warner Brothers. President Harry Warner said the company could not resume the old scale until April 17, a week later than the day set by the Academy. The production chief of Warner Brothers' studio, Darryl Francis Zanuck, found himself in an awkward position. He had persuaded Warners' indignant employes to take the cut in the first place. He resigned (TIME, April 24) without demanding...