Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the session President Hoover vetoed seven measures, including the first relief bill, a Democratic tariff bill, an omnibus pension bill, a bill for a pre-arranged wage scale on public works...
Juggling figures lightly, Secretary Hyde showed that, on the basis of the U. S. Forest Service, a million men could care for an area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
...Europe especially architects have been studying the efficiency of the home as a home in addition to cost-saving devices in building it. Many architects in the U. S. have tackled the problem individually. Housing developments such as Sunnyside. L. I., have realized the savings resultant from large-scale building. A special committee of United States Steel Corp. has studied steel houses. American Rolling Mill Co. sees a future when steel will be used for streets as well as houses. McClintic-Marshall has tried a small steel frame house division. In the secret laboratories of A. O. Smith Corp...
...conservative first mortgage. The company plans to consolidate first and second mortgages, to lend 75% of the value of house & lot on reasonable terms, the financing to be handled by an affiliated company. General Houses expects to add later a line of still cheaper houses for large-scale projects, also a de luxe line which will be to it what Cadillac is to General Motors...
...exposition was definitely art-conscious. The Master Plumbers claimed that their "glorification of the unmentionable" had evolved a "new conception" of the bathroom. The New Bathroom is designed 1) to dress in; 2) to keep clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors...