Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams teams with Leverett when attempting social enterprises on a large scale, but autumn finds it able to hold its own with post-game tea dances. In squash, it has rights to six of the Linden Street courts...
...players (in 1891, the payroll for 80 players was $90,000). Understanding musicians used to run Chicago's music union but now shrewd swart James C. Petrillo is in command. Said he last week: ''There is no question of a reduction of the wage scale. ... If the public will not pay for good music, it is Chicago's loss...
...intrastate scale the principle of Interstate Commerce Commission control of airlines to restrict competition (see above) was tested last week in Tucson, Ariz. Errett Lobban Cord's Century Pacific Lines, Ltd. appeared before the Arizona Corporation Commission to ask a certificate of necessity & convenience for carrying passengers between Douglas, Tucson & Phoenix on its route from Los Angeles to El Paso. Opposing the plea was American Airways, Inc. with the claim that it had pioneered the territory, that it was giving adequate service with three round trips daily between Tucson & Phoenix, that it could give more whenever traffic warranted...
...Britons who used to own land in Ireland- the famed "absentee landlords." Suddenly and officially last week the Council of the Irish Labor Party reversed itself, announced that "the Labor Party has always opposed the oath" and further that the Party now stands for ''friendly negotiations" to scale down or terminate the landlord payments...
...said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...