Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coal Commission, entering the situation for the first time, invited the Joint Scale Committee of the anthracite miners and operators to meet with it at the Pennsylvania Hotel, Manhattan. The invitations were accepted. After both sides had talked with the Commission the miners made two offers: 1) That the operators accept all their demands; 2) that the miners would give up their demands for the check-off (whereby the operators would collect dues, assessments and fines for the union out of miners' wages) provided the operators would stop their practice of checking off from miners' wages debts contracted...
...This survey will cover almost 2,000 miles on the Colorado and Green Rivers and their tributaries. Besides completing the topographical maps of the region, the party will seek sites for dams, to control the floods in the Colorado, for irrigation, and for commercial power development on an extensive scale...
...water at the beach. The child recovered the use of her limbs and learned to swim. The medical fact underlying the treatment is that moderate heat causes increased blood supply in the parts affected, relieving inflammation and stimulating movement. The method has not yet been tried on a large scale, but offers promise...
...last eight months. This constitutes about 3% of the entire Negro population of the U. S. During the War (1916-1919) a similar movement took place; 450,000 Negroes went north, but about half of the number returned later. The present migration is on even a greater scale, however; for the migration has been three-quarters as great in less than one-quarter the time...
...stock market, despite its relative inactivity, nevertheless proved firmer, and thereby imparted an air of confidence in financial circles temporarily lacking in recent weeks. Resumption of building operations on a more moderate scale has also cheered the business community, and already autumn buying is awaited with distinct optimism...