Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime expansion and technological improvements, the company could grant the 30% rise and still make a fair profit without raising its selling prices. (If the company could prove otherwise, said Reuther, he would gladly scale down his demands...
Answering itself, the Sun said: "Instead of boldly dealing with industrial unrest ... he amiably advises people to 'cut out foolishness' and go to work. That is a phrase straight out of the Harding-Coolidge do-nothing era. . . . The President is dealing with monumental issues ... in a small-scale...
Packard's problems are just as serious. Packard's basic wage scale, said Christopher, has increased 12% since 1942; overall production costs are up 17%. So, said he, if OPA holds firm on prices, and labor insists on a 30% wage boost, the auto industry faces shutdown or bankruptcy...
...other end of the scale of danger, General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir told a Senate committee that the Russians, in ten or 20 years, might be able to push a button and thereby destroy "not only our cities, but every man, woman and child in the United States...
...many, since prewar Czechoslovakia carried out an extensive land reform) are vanishing. Agriculture is being rationalized-but not through the Soviet system of collectivization. The kolkhoz (collective farms), Communists agree, would be anathema to Czechoslovakia's peasant landowners. Instead, the Government is promoting farmers' cooperatives on a scale surpassing that of prewar days, when they counted 2,000,000 members...