Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last about to behold that unspeakable spectacle which he had dreaded: totalitarian war in which women & children, the aged and the ill, civilians as well as military, orders sacred and orders profane, would all be devastated regardless. Ambassador Joe Kennedy returned to a Britain preparing for death on a scale it believed impossible to exaggerate. Yet Britain was calm, methodical, at moments almost whimsical-completely different from last September...
This sort of large-scale jamming, however, would ruin domestic communication. So well is this recognized, and so indispensable is radio considered as a medium for domestic communication, maintaining morale, that some powers last week were making other arrangements for maintaining domestic radio communication under outside radio fire...
...North. In 94 packed pages he reported to Secretary Harold L. Ickes that the planned development of Alaska "is an inescapable moral obligation" of the U. S., that its 590,884 square miles are the "last frontier," that U. S. economy and national defense demand its large-scale settlement, preferably by public-purpose corporations such as the East India Company that developed India for Great Britain, the Plymouth Company that developed the Indian-infested wilds of Massachusetts...
...income was $1,181,587, and its fixed charges were earned 1.61 times. At the end of the 1939 fiscal year, net income had hit $2,030,033 and the line had earned its charges 2.26 times. It also paid $743,022 in taxes. Its wage scale went up with income and today Detroit Street Railways' platform men, operating 1,269 busses, 1,302 streetcars, are paid an average of 81? an hour, highest...
...charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding Home" was aimed at business girls who, without church or family background, "have the same yearning as society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes for $10. For $75, she offered a hall, flowers, music, minister or magistrate, bride's trousseau and bouquet, six prop bridesmaids (gowned), a flower girl, announcements, a photograph of the whole business. Miss Morgan had some ministers (anonymous) on call, said she would...