Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barracks in the prime ministry of Sir Robert Peel (who also helped make other medical history-see below). Now the Irish have built or completely rebuilt 82 hospitals, extended or overhauled 95 others, and have a total of 253 with 40,000 beds-near the top of the European scale. With the help of the new hospitals (plus new drugs), deaths from tuberculosis have dropped from 124 per 100,000 in 1947 to 35 in 1954. Diphtheria deaths fell after 1942 from...
...health again; it pushed into the black off and on, and in 1951 won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its series on New York crime. But Schroth could not lick his Guild problem. At each round of wage negotiations, the Guild demanded the same wage scale as Manhattan papers, which is the highest scale in the U.S. Pointing to rising costs, Schroth pleaded that he could not pay. This year, in January, the 315 Guildsmen struck again, to try to keep up to the Manhattan scale...
...whole contract was subject to review. Said he: the Guild was asking the Eagle to accept "terms that would have doubled the Eagle's great financial loss of 1954." He pointed out that on the Guild's list of 177 U.S. dailies, the Eagle's scale ($131.50 a week minimum for experienced reporters) was eighth in the U.S., right behind Manhattan's seven big dailies...
...York Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy argued that the ten mechanical unions in the Eagle's plant were paid Manhattan scale, "and we can't let Schroth claim: 'I've got enough money for everybody else but I haven't enough for you.'" Schroth replied by pointing out that the mechanical contracts had few of the benefits such as severance pay and sick leave that were in the Guild contract. Mediators tried to bring the two sides into agreement to save the paper, but the area of disagreement was too wide...
Untamed (20th Century-Fox). Hollywood traditionally measures the worth of a film by the amount 'of money it costs. This picture may establish a new scale of critical values. Last week a studio press release solemnly recommended it as one in which no fewer than "16 wind machines" had been used, "the most ever assembled for a 20th Century-Fox picture." It has, by the wind-machine standard, all the qualities of greatness: "Sweep and magnitude . . . Africa . . . CinemaScope . . . color by De Luxe ... a great story . . . irresistible passion," and even "ethnic glories." It lasts for in minutes...