Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest union in France is the disunion of the unaffiliated." Almost 2,500,000 French men and women between the ages of 15 and 30 work in industry, earn pitifully small salaries, live in slums and have little hope for the future. Social security, introduced on a large scale by the Popular Front government in 1936 specifically to benefit workers, has in a paradoxical way also contributed to a split between youth and its elders in the labor movement. The vast wave of agitation for better conditions that swept through the early '30s was largely led by family breadwinners...
...bases. Already the Austrian treaty has driven a neutral spike into the Western defense forcing removal of troops from Austria and cutting off Italy from direct communication with NATO forces in Germany. The neutralization of Germany would force a complete realignment of defenses and would probably mean a large-scale withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe...
needed competition, certified nonscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines for full-scale service with five DC-35 along H.A.L.'s routes. With that, the dogfight...
...proved an accurate prophet in the postwar years, outlined what tax cuts could mean. Said he: "A $4,000-a-year man might well be living like a $5,000-a-year man. Or, putting it another way, it might enable people to live on a scale in 1956 or 1957 that they hadn't considered possible before 1960." Said Chairman Arthur Burns of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "A large-scale reduction or elimination of armaments would give us a magnificent and welcome opportunity for raising living standards...
...with publication of his first novel, Tarr, Lewis sprang suddenly into true prominence. Tarr was not only his first large-scale assault on woolly vaporings about love and life, it was (and still is) one of the greatest comic novels ever written in English. None of Lewis' later novels-even The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God, The Childermass-has ousted Tarr from first place, but each displays uniquely the mingled anger, intellectual probity and hair-raising humor that are the stamp of a Lewis opus. What is most curious and most defective about all these novels...