Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy: 1) press the fight for price control for another 30 days, 2) if prices continued to rise, reopen wage clauses on a national scale. Then Walter Reuther, obviously hoping that the Decontrol Board was listening, threatened to reopen the Chrysler contract...
...last week there had been one scale-$17,500 a year for ambassadors and $10,000 for ministers, regardless of the importance of their assignments. Now there would be four brackets-from $15,000 to $25,000, according to the posts. Also substantially increased were allowances for maintenance of residences, entertainment...
...many posts the boosts would still fall far short of meeting bills for maintaining an expensive house, a large corps of servants, and entertaining on a scale befitting an envoy of the world's richest nation. In London, Averell Harriman, who has been getting about $31,000 salary and allowance (before taxes on his salary) will now get about $65,000 a year (before taxes)-to run a show which, by prewar standards, was guesstimated to cost upwards of $100,000 a year.* His Union Pacific railroad fortune would still be a handy thing to have around the Embassy...
...other radio stars followed his lead with transcriptions, any independent station would be able to air talent that only networks can now afford. If Philco accepts, the show will probably go on over ABC or Mutual. The big networks, NBC and CBS, have too much to lose; large-scale transcribing could rip them apart...
Interest in the Winthrop House exhibition of paintings, drawings, and photographs, submitted by House members, has been keen enough to warrant a larger-scale competition, a Winthrop resident believes, and under his direction, plans are being made for a University-wide art exhibition and competition to begin in the middle of next term...