Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, some readjustment and redirection of resources is going to be necessary, but just as such a step will be imperative economically it will be difficult politically. A systematic program of redirection is bound to include such traditional bugaboos as national health insurance, large-scale federal highway construction and comprehensive federal aid to education. The leaders and the people of the United States will have to meet the domestic challenge of total disarmament with a forcefulness and imagination they have shown only in times of extreme calamity...
Harkness lost $27,000 last year, and the large scale changes in service are intended to attract greater numbers of students. Food sales at the graduate dining hall have dropped steadily during the last few years with competition from Square restaurants...
...achieve a higher faculty pay scale, legislative approval had to be obtained. Last spring, the university's administration doubled tuition, from $100 to $200 for state residents, to make the pay hike possible. Massachusetts actually profited by the change. Some additional $644,000 would have been obtained, and only $479,000 disbursed to the faculty. Bill 1030, the pay-raise proposal, seemed certain of passage. Governor Foster Furcolo deliberated a special message ("high quality public education is the Commonwealth's greatest natural resource"); President Mather stumped the state and appeared before the powerful Committee on Education; and students rallied...
...Assembly's 21-nation Steering Committee was expected to act, probably Wednesday, on the request of Ireland and Malaya to put the Tibetan issue before the Assembly for full-scale debate...
...Arthur Rank-owned movie houses into bowling alleys in England. A.M.F. this month automated the second bowling alley in Stockholm, will soon build similar facilities in Denmark, Belgium and Australia. With the expensive promotions and plush environments, A.M.F. and Brunswick hope to build bowling overseas up to the scale...