Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money continues easy, and, judging from the last cut in the Reserve rate, may be expected to continue so for some time. Foreign political outlook is visibly brighter, also foreign bonds and exchange in consequence. Domestic finance is absorbed by railway mergers on a large scale. International finance is even more alert over coming foreign loan flotations...
...proposal is advanced to make synthetic lumber on a wholesale scale out of waste sugar-cane fibre and other such industrial byproducts. B. G. Dahlberg of Chicago is the proponent of this idea and a frank enthusiast over its practical possibilities...
...broadcasting on a national scale, we will have to fall back on the land wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a basis. These wires will receive the speeches from the microphone, where it is set up, and take them to the cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right...
...57th Regiment of the Filipino Scouts and part of the Twelfth Medical Regiment refused to turn out for drill and other martial exercises. Their white officers exhorted them; the 600 Filipinos shook their heads. As a matter of fact, they wanted more pay. They are paid on the same scale that American soldiers are paid, but whereas the Americans are paid dollars, the Filipinos are paid pesos. Pesos are worth 50? each, and the Scouts had discovered that the arrangement worked to their disadvantage. They considered what fitting action should be taken and decided to prepare and to "warrantize...
...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...