Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Reserve Banks will resume open-market operations on a grand scale. At the Treasury's order they will buy up to $3,000,000,000 worth of Federal securities and hold them for a specified time. Thus $3,000,000,000 in cash will pass along to the banks and presumably into commercial credit. But last year President Hoover tried the same method of credit inflation and failed to produce results. In three months the Federal Reserve bought $950,000,000 worth of "Governments," but their payments lodged in the banks and never got out to the country...
Hatching at the White House last week was a nestful of plans for the mobilization of industry on a scale not seen in the U. S. since War days. What sort of Federal control over work and wages would finally come forth even President Roosevelt did not know. He was brooding over a wide assortment of ideas, offered not only by his assistants but by financiers and industrialists who wanted him to go the limit on business dictatorship to end unemployment, restore the nation's buying power...
Through a "reputable professional man," the vigilant St. Louis Post-Dispatch got hold of a letter which indicated that Tax Reviewer Throop had taken bribes to scale down assessments for certain East St. Louis manufacturers. Docile Mr. Throop, while denying the authenticity of the letter, consented at once to accompany a reporter to Springfield, where he resigned his office and confessed all to the Attorney General. Only the case of the local Elks' Club, whose tax assessment was lowered from $5,000 to $200, was made public. Investigation of others was promptly instituted...
...deer in the foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full 35 ft. by 42. He sent this model to Brussels in 1931 to be cast into bronze. It is still in Brussels. But in his big white Manhattan studio...
...idea of a poll to discover the opinion of American colleges on this subject was conceived by the Brown University Herald. Later a group was formed to carry on the project on a national scale...