Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truth, like justice, has usually been personified as a woman; and the university, which is dedicated to the search for the one, might soon have been found wanting in the scale of the other, if it had continued much longer to deny equal status in its records to those whose full participation it invited in the professional field...
...decisive margin. Within two years, however, that margin will be pared perilously thin. The U. S. and Japan both have new ships building. The U. S. building program was only recently begun. The Japanese program, begun two or three years earlier, will begin producing on a big scale very soon...
...families of men in the armed forces had been raised one shilling for wives, one shilling sixpence for the first two children. The dole had been increased from 26 to 30 shillings for man & wife, from 35 to 41 shillings threepence for a family of five. A new wage scale and more liberal workmen's compensation rates had been obtained. Labor also took credit for the Emergency Powers Bill granting the Government power to conscript property...
...addition to the usual two full-scale productions each year, the Dramatic Club will undertake two others "of more experimental nature worthy of production." This new policy is intended to give would-be playwrights and directors among the undergraduates an opportunity to test and develop their theatrical efforts in actual production. Several student-written manuscripts have already been submitted and are now being considered by the Club...
What Is "Excess"? In addition, "excess profits" are taxed on a graduated scale from 25% (under $20,000) to 50% (over $500,000). There are two ways to figure the excess, and a corporation may choose either: 1) Any profits over 8% on invested capital. (Such capital may include all equity capital, but only half the debt.) 2) Any profits over 95% of the average profits...