Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the good offices of the Government, a textile strike, three weeks old, was ended. Under the terms of the agreement, the workers went back to the mills at the old scale of wages, pending an inquiry which is to recommend a new wage agreement. The strike was caused by the mill owners' announcement of an 8% reduction in wage...
...single salary scale for teachers equally experienced. Minimum salary: $2,000 per annum...
...speculation in Florida real estate is nationwide, and very wild; sporadic outbreaks of the same fever are, however, to be seen in many other sections of the country on a smaller scale. The collapse of Los Angeles real estate speculation is forgotten...
...Fords having taken hold?the Fords, for Edsel has in large measure led the way into aeronautics?began laying plans at once for large-scale production. A plane a week (and soon a plane a day) was reported to be their program. Something of the kind is evidently in contemplation from the senior Ford's remark...
...Union fields and only about 30% in the Unionized fields; that large Union operations are entirely shut down and that more than 200,000 Union miners are out of regular employment. There is no escaping from the meaning of these facts. The Unionized mines cannot survive under the scale of wages attempted to be imposed upon them and the non-Union operators are taking the business...