Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore appear to be mainly overcapitalization. Owing to Wartime prosperity and post-War mergers, the company has very considerably increased the amounts of its outstanding stock and bonds. Now, in normal times, it remains to be seen whether earnings will be large enough to pay dividends on the generous scale formerly practised...
...Erik Fane's great music. The action aims to tell the story of his life, on which he based his symphony. First he flees Rome with a mistress because his father demands his return to Wall Street. Failing to write his music in Paris, he slides down the scale and is 'next discovered in a Port Said brothel. Ably assisted by quantities of dope, he murders a cockney sailor man. His last lap is in the Marquesas where he comes down with leprosy. In the brief remaining years of sanitay he is supposed to have contrived the symphony...
...efficiency of these chain bakeries and the amount of territory they serve are, however, greater than those of their independent and smaller competitors, owing to their employing fleets of trucks for making rapid deliveries. Large-scale baking also makes possible many economies of operation in labor and material costs. How far mergers in the breadmaking field may go, no one can say. The field is apparently wide open. In another decade we may have a "Bread Trust" for fearless politicians to attack in election years...
...last three decades, the partners have been responsible for The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-06), Schaff-Hertzog's Encyclopedia of Re ligious Knowledge, Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates and other monumental works. Dr. Funk's guiding passion was for undertakings on a big scale with a special penchant for lexicography. When he died, he had just completed the manuscript for The New Standard Dictionary. Adam Willis Wagnalls found his forte in the financial rather than in the editorial side of the business. He remained active in the firm until a few months ago, when...
...index is based upon a percentage scale, the average prices for the year 1913 being taken as 100. As between the seven groups above enumerated, dairy and garden products at 118 are nearest pre-War prices, while clothing at 187 is farthest above the pre-War price level...