Word: scale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement dark with implications, Van Zandt demanded a full-scale investigation of "the unusually large purchases of aircraft [by the Air Force] from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Floyd Odium, a contributor to the Democratic campaign, and a company of which Louis Johnson was, until three days after his nomination as Secretary of Defense, a director and Washington counsel...
...Jamaica cement project. With the same quiet dexterity that won him a wartime U.S. Medal for Merit, he quickly organized the Caribbean Cement Co. Ltd., with himself as chairman (Ed Stettinius joined in as a director). He got a 19-year monopoly on Jamaican cement, and a scale of guaranteed prices (30% below the delivered cost of British cement, but still enough to make a tidy $221,650 annual profit...
...Smith. Terminiello incited his audience with a fascist line of invective and bate. The mob outside hurled bricks, stink bombs, bottles and ice picks-through the windows and tried to break in the doors. Chicago police were just barely able to hold them in check and prevent a full-scale battle of the streets. Terminiello was arrested under a Chicago ordinance which declares it unlawful to create a "diversion tending to a breach of the peace...
...start, the proud old Palace had humbled itself with low-budget acts and no headliners. In a famed Variety phrase, the new show's hoofers, illusionists and comics were "good for the smalltime." But Variety itself, pointing to the Palace's low admission scale (55? to 95? on weekdays), gave the ghost a good chance for survival...
Actually, a fare increase is a reasonable answer to the problem; cities like Detroit and Washington have had a two-for-a-quarter token system for five years now. One suggestion offered has been to scale the fare in proportion to the distance that a person travels. For instance, the rate on an outlying line, say from Watertown to Harvard Square, would be six cents; the intown rate on one of the main transit lines would be ten cents. Thus the maximum fare for traveling the length of the system (two outlying lines and a main line) would...