Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pocket of dignified Conservative Bennett is one bulging bit of hokum. Time and again he has accused his Liberal predecessor, ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, of "pusillanimously permitting Washington to write our tariff act!" Matter of fact, under Mr. King, the Canadian tariff was an automatically sliding scale of "countervailing duties"-that is, if the U. S. duty on Canadian cold storage eggs were raised to x cents a dozen, bang would go Canada's duty on U. S. cold storage eggs to x cents. All this Mr. Bennett vowed to change. Proudly last week he pointed...
...taken those that are key industries, those where activity may be stimulated and employment given on a larger scale. We have secured the consumer against exploitation, and the result will do much to meet the emergent conditions for which this Parliament was called together." War Whoop. Like an Indian war whoop rose Liberal King's instant challenge to Conservative Bennett's statement. Scarcely had the Prime Minister sat down when the ex-Prime Minister moved and read a scathing amendment: "This House regrets that the Government has seen fit at a special session called to deal only with...
Even that plum tasted slightly tart to Aviation Corp. officials, whose mouths had been watering in anticipation of "100% of the maximum rate" for which they had bid. While the Watres bill authorizes payment up to $1.25 per mi. flown by the contractor, the Postmaster General established a scale of 75¢ per mi. for mail space of 47 cu. ft. (about 400 Ib. of mail) and 40¢ for space of 25 cu. ft. (about 225 Ib. of mail). Aviation Corp expected Postmaster General Brown to contract for the larger load. Instead, he took only the 40¢ space to start with...
...Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag, for the large-scale Antarctic whaling industry is conducted by English, Norwegian and Danish vessels, many of which are controlled by Anglo-Norwegian Holdings, Ltd., whose shares are traded in on the New York Curb. If the Frango does well, American Whaling Co. will add other vessels, attempt to regain U. S. whaling prestige...
...celebrate in six concerts and competitions the silver jubilee of the Pacific organization. Meantime 5,000 members of the Rhenish Singers' Union were converging on Cologne. The plan was to attempt something new in radio singing-an interchange of broad- casts, "round'' harmony on a transoceanic scale. San Francisco was to sing a number, Cologne was to listen, then bellow a reply...