Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idle for us to speculate upon actions which may be taken by the Federal Government. ... It is true the Federal Government may take action to eradicate some of the basic causes of our present troubles . . . may come forward with a definite construction program on a truly large scale . . . may adopt a well thought out, concrete policy which will start the wheels of industry moving. . . . But the State of New York cannot wait for that. It must itself make available a large sum of public monies to provide work for its residents this winter and, where such work cannot be found...
Because she sincerely believed in union labor, President Roche invited the return of the United Mine Workers of America, which other operators had driven out of Colorado after the Ludlow uprising (1914). She gave her men a tip-top wage scale-$7 per day. She set up company welfare agencies. She created a cooperative form of management. She got rid of the thousands of dollars worth of machine guns, ammunition and barbed wire the company kept on hand for labor disturbances. She won the loyal affection of her workers, all of whom know her by sight, and the anxious distrust...
Early last summer Rocky Mountain announced to the Colorado Industrial Commission that the 1929 wage scale would be maintained. Colorado Fuel & Iron followed suit with a similar pledge for its non-union miners. But late in July, C. F. & I. abruptly announced a 25% wage cut, with base pay cut to $5.22 per day. All other important companies in the State except Rocky Mountain made like reductions. Miss Roche publicly appealed to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., C. F. & I. owner: "One word from you can prevent a recurrence of the human and economic waste which will result from the action...
Daughter of the Dragon (Paramount) shows the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland) far less insidious than he seemed in the stories of Sax Rohmer, engaged in homicide on an ambitious scale but in a manner too placid to be awful. Brought to his deathbed early in the picture, he charges his daughter (Anna May Wong) to continue his program of extermination. This she attempts to do, in the case of a British aristocrat and his son, who falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does...
...years ago Dr. Paul Bauer took Bavarian mountain climbers to scale 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga on the India-Thibet frontier. Blizzards and avalanches thwarted the party. Last year another German group under Professor Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth tried, failed, turned to and surmounted neighboring Jonsong Peak, altitude 24,340 ft. This summer Dr. Bauer again essayed Kanchenjunga...