Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windfall in Detroit, the story was the same: some 2,000 communities in the U.S. last week were winding up their annual Community Chest and United Fund campaigns, which this year will top 1955's record of $340 million. The results attest to the resounding success of large-scale, organized giving, in which a single-fund appeal raises more money than was once raised for charity by a score of individual appeals.* Moreover, this new organizational know-how has brought millions of Americans into the $72 billion charity "industry" that was once the private domain of the wealthy...
This situation is largely due to the vast bureaucratic structures which gradually spiral down to level of post office such as Cambridge, 38, and which is so tied up with relatively small considerations that any large-scale improvement such as the correction of the existing New York mail situation becomes virtually impossible. A Post office for Harvard University falls victim to the same type of disinterest in any sort of problem which might take an excessive amount of study and consideration. Within this framework the local office is quite helpless...
Cambridge, 38 handles the mail when it comes into its area of action and jurisdiction and rests content to devote its energy to the task of maintaining an efficient postal system on a relatively small scale. If it continues to succed in doing this, it will have done one job well.After its arrival at Cambridge, 38 the mail is broken down into street and dormitory classifications for individual routes...
...more rock 'n' roll, the boy concentrated on Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The longhairs paid off. This week, at the age of seven, Joey took over Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, led the Symphony of the Air (formerly Toscanini's NBC Symphony) in a full-scale program including Mozart's Figaro overture, Beethoven's Fifth and Haydn's Surprise symphonies. His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball cues. But sometimes he was vague. Several times...
...that the oil crisis would end soon, few Europeans were as optimistic, looked ahead gloomily to higher prices, short supplies, gas rationing, mounting unemployment as oil-dependent industries were forced to slow down. Britain has already asked drivers to stay off the road voluntarily to conserve fuel, expects full-scale rationing by Christmas (see FOREIGN NEWS). But despite their troubles, London's papers could still note, with a wry smile, that the Arabs had their troubles, too, were unable to ship abroad all the oil they produced...