Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions of Midwesterners the Great Lakes are a vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports...
...modern relative of the dinosaur, one of the 250 extant Indian rhinos was cornered by Miss Lane in the Bronx Zoo. She first made a six-inch job, then a two-foot, then a four-foot, and finally a life-size. She was dissuaded from going on up the scale...
...When industries organize themselves on a national scale, making their relation to interstate commerce the dominant factor in their activities, how can it be maintained that their industrial labor relations constitute a forbidden field into which Congress may not enter when it is necessary to protect interstate commerce from the paralyzing consequences of industrial...
...Rothery-Viking ($3). Attractively written, microscopic guide to "the oldest kingdom in the world . . . also one of the wisest and happiest." Like Marquis W. Childs (Sweden: The Middle Way), Author Rothery credits near-miracles to Scandinavian cooperatives, but unlike him, thinks they operate on too miniature a scale there to teach much to bigger democracies...
Opportunity to scale peaks of the famous Canadian Selkirk range this summer will be offered to new members who have made good during the spring practice in the vicinity. The group, which boasts a membership of 115, claimed that a member of the Nanda Devi party hd never climbed before his Freshman year, learned the arts of the rope on Rattlesnake Hill...