Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct intercollegiate and intramural athletics on such a scale (as that at Harvard)", Mr. Bingham writes, "costs money and a great deal of money." He goes on to point out the enormous expansion of the "Athletics for All" program, declaring that "the whole scheme of athletics has changed," and that the new expenses "have added many hundred percent to our requirements." He takes special pains to reject the charge that coaches' salaries are too high...
...limited in an unfortunate manner. The chief disadvantage, however, is not the loss of money per se, for the colleges did well with the present amount four years ago, but rather that, like individuals, the colleges find difficulty in living cheaply after having been attuned to an inflated scale...
...company has been run by three administrators (similar to U S receivers) appointed by the Swedish Government. Cooperating with creditors and representatives of affiliated Kreusrer & Toll (the investment company) and International Match Corp., they evolved a workable scheme and the moratorium was lifted. Creditors were not asked to scale down their claims; they will receive 6% interest, the principal will be paid off gradually out of earnings. Capital was reduced 75% to 90,000,000 kronor (about $15,500,000) by exchanging one share of new common stock for four shares of old. No dividends maybe paid until after creditors...
...above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms within the $100-$200 range...
...wound whence the railways extracted a 10% horizontal wage cut last year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...