Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shrugged our shoulders when we have seen cotton run up & down the scale between 4½? and 28?; wheat run down & up the scale between $1.50 and 30?; corn, hogs, cattle, potatoes, rye, peaches-all of them fluctuating from month to month and from year to year in mad gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil...
Food Machinery started humbly in 1884 when Maine-born Californian John Bean invented the first hand spray pump, designed to battle the San Jose scale.* Spray pumps grew bigger, with higher pressures, became power driven, resulted in the manufacture of turbine pumps used in irrigating farms. Now turbine pumps are used in mines and tunnels...
...amalgamation of many food machinery companies. Food Machinery Corp. somewhat resembles, on smaller scale, United Shoe Machinery Corp., particularly since many of its most important items are not sold but leased. Food Machinery leases the Color Process (orange packers pay 2? a case), the milk sterilizer (2? a case), the Peach Pitter, the Pear Machine. Last week Food Machinery announced that its sales for 1935 (year ending Sept. 30) were up 29% from 1934; its lease income up 70%. Sales were $6,486,000; lease-income was $1,041,000, not counting the partly-owned Peach Pitter; total income...
...over one gruesome death, grew lyrical when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, reached an awful climax when Lulu was slain. Austria's Alban Berg is one of the few real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced it "involved trash," while Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune went the whole hog in the other direction by saying: "The layman...
...Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means. This method taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored...