Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study of a man and woman about to marry and applying, each without the other's knowledge, for the same post. If he secures it, the play ends happily. If she secures it, the social loss is clear. This is what actually is taking place on a large scale-all over the world...
Great in the U. S. is the urge to merge. In Europe, the cartel is the current charm against business ills. Members of a cartel agree to such things as fixed production quotas, a single retail price scale, exchange of patent rights, standardization of parts, etc. A cartel often amounts to a monopoly of an industry and sometimes extends across international boundary lines...
...Isaiah Bowman, Col. Claude Hale Birdseye, Samuel W. Boggs, erudite scientists, left for the International Geographic Congress at London with one burning purpose : "To prepare a map of the world with a scale of 16 miles to the inch." Their ship, the Leviathan, celebrated its sixth anniversary crossing...
Seeds. Recently Prof. William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
...Work's career as a large-scale organizer began during the War, when he gave up his private practice and was put in charge of the medical aspects of the Army draft. Will H. Hays selected Dr. Work to organize the farm vote in the Harding campaign and later retained his services...