Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like St. Gandhi?though in less degree ?President de Valera is opposed to the Machine Age, vigorously encourages farming, dairying, stock breeding, handicrafts and small-scale peasant industry. The famed Shannon River Power Station has wrought its chief results not in supplying industrial power but in lighting tiny cottages, keeping craftsmen's lathes turning...
...Moscow last week was the son of the U. S. Secretary of Commerce. "This is the biggest and most interesting stock job in the whole world!" cried Cattleman Robert P. Lament Jr. "From what I have seen and heard already, they contemplate doing on a rapid and gigantic scale what is done gradually by individuals in our Western States?the transformation of cattle from longhorn, rangy animals with comparatively low meat product to modern shorthorn meat stock...
...fact that Jo Mielziner is not only a sound stage designer but also a facile, amusing, often brilliant draughts man. Robert Edmond Jones's completed sets are generally more effective than his sketches. Jo Mielziner's seldom are. In addition he has found time between building scale models, carpenter's blue prints, electricians' light plots, laying out color schemes, to make a number of brilliant back stage sketches. One of these, a large water color of a lean, complacent French clown drawing on a huge pair of rose-colored gloves, would be worthy of attention...
...green asparagus from New Jersey. The Ambassador frequently chomps in Paris a crisp U. S. apple. Last week 500 tons of such apples, valued at $100,000, lay on the docks at Havre, kept out of the country as suspected carriers of the pernicious San José scale (TIME, March...
Meanwhile last week Ford production had not started on a large scale despite much hullabaloo about his "risking all" (TIME, Feb. 22). Steelmakers chafed and competitors tended to await Ford's moves, slowing all industry...