Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...besieged had had no food for two days; they sipped dirty water from the boiler pipes. At any second they expected to be rushed from their stronghold by a massed attack of unionists, long enraged at their "scab" operation of the Dixie Bee pending negotiation of a new wage scale...
Reduced in size and price (from is. to 6d.), the Graphic was renamed The National Graphic. Editor Beaumont explained: "Lord Northcliffe, followed by Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook, set out to organize the daily and Sunday newspapers on a national scale, but nobody has yet taken up the British weekly press in a similar way, although it has been done in the United States where the weeklies have gigantic circulations...
...among whom Sir Henry was especially popular. "During Sir Henry's stewardship," their spokesman said, "cooperation between labor and management . . . has been developed to a degree unsurpassed anywhere in the railroad industry. Sir Henry leaves behind him one of the finest monuments in human relations ever erected in large scale industry...
...Havas and undoubtedly represented the real views of the French Government last week. L' Ere Nouvelle, personal organ of Premier Herriot, exulted: "The Accord de Con fiance constitutes on the same basis as the Locarno and Briand-Kellogg pacts one of the most important political events on an international scale since Versailles...
...with the formation of Aviation Corp., which has yet to show earning power. He took his money abroad, put it into zinc mines in Poland, a manganese concession in Russia. In 1919, six years out of Yale, Son Harriman formed W. A. Harriman & Co. which conducted a large-scale investment banking business. Hard-working young Mr. Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year...