Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ready to quit. Though the cost of settling had run to $14,000 per family instead of an anticipated $3,500, the experiment was worth every cent it had cost, declared the Senator, because it had "proved once and for all that Alaska is not suitable for large-scale colonization...
Sixty-six years ago the populous city of Buffalo provided almost unparalleled conveniences for its inhabitants. It had approximately one saloon for every 220 citizens, male and female, infantile, adult and senile. Its facilities for gambling and original sin were on a similar scale. In this situation a 33-year-old lawyer made a difficult decision. He was rated one of the ablest young men at the Buffalo bar, had been assistant district attorney and might well have looked forward to an election as district attorney or even to Congress. But he decided to run for the hack...
...start of the War foreign holdings of U. S. securities were between $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000. As foreign markets swiftly closed, the New York Stock Exchange became the only possible place in the world where securities could be turned into cash on a large scale. At 9:30 A. M. on the last day of July the Governors bravely announced they would stay open, come what might. But the flood of foreign orders mounted so high in the next half hour that the Governors quickly changed their minds. The Exchange was not re-opened...
Stressed in the steelmasters' announcements was the point that they had arrived at the new pay scales by negotiation with their company unions. In the Homestead, Pa. plant of Carnegie-Illinois, biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, the company union promptly accepted the raise and a grimy group of pit men lined up for news photographers, singing Happy Days Are Here Again (see cut, p. 26). But most of the Carnegie-Illinois sheet & tinplate mill workers' representatives held out for a 15% raise. At Carnegie-Illinois' Duquesne plant, company union men balked at the cost-of-living scale...
...future. Said he: "We know that there will be great fleets of aircraft and great fleets of tanks. We know that motorization and mechanization are here to stay. And, despite all the humanitarian pacts ever signed, we know that gas is going to be used on an unprecedented scale. You gentlemen are going to encounter two new types of casualties in increasing numbers, namely mustard gas and out-&-out burns. It should not be an uncommon occurrence to find mustard casualties soaring close to the 100% mark in the smaller units. . . . In addition to these mustard casualties it seems...