Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country's well-read and canny working class sensed that with Leon Blum & Friends warming the seats of power, proletarians need fear no interference from police if they chose to strike and make demands on their employers. Simultaneous but individual strikes had already begun on a large scale fortnight ago and many French employers were already knuckling down to their workers by granting 10% and 15% pay increases (TIME, June 8), but last week strikes spread and grew until Jean Frenchman, some 1,000,000 strong, was telling his employer not to go to Hades but simply to ameliorate...
...World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas Building which will become a permanent historical building. Other not-so-novelties include a music amphitheatre, buildings of animal...
...strike in New York Harbor (TIME, May 25) last week fizzled out in complete defeat for the strikers. Offered a settlement by the Union heads which promised nothing except "no discrimination," the insurgents reluctantly agreed to return to work, give up their demands for a higher wage scale, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. Most admitted defeat. To save his face, Strikeleader Joseph Curran announced...
After receiving the $65,000 commission, Milles worked four years at his studio in Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, to make a full-scale model which was shipped in sections to St. Paul, where the finished statue's 98 onyx blocks were carved and carefully lifted into place by a crew of workmen. The statue's turntable was motivated by a one-half h. p. motor which slowly swings the Indian 90° to the right in one hour, then 90° to the left next hour. From the second floor level...
...battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers, one aircraft carrier, four submarines and an assortment of minor craft. Munitions. Nine hundred private plants have been inspected, 400 of them most carefully. Within a few days most of these will receive contracts for making machine tools and gauges, necessary before any large-scale munitions program can be undertaken. Air Force. Within the past twelve months 1,500 new pilots have been enlisted. "But what we are interested in at the present moment," said Sir Thomas, "is the provision of aircraft for the use of this personnel." All British automobile plants have been canvassed...