Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oceanographers believe that man is approaching the point where he can try large-scale experiments on the ocean. Not all of them like this prospect; they feel that tinkering with the ocean without sufficient knowledge may be extremely dangerous. They are aghast at the project much discussed by the Russians, of using atomic energy to clear the Arctic Ocean of ice to help Siberian sea transport. Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory believes that the Northern Hemisphere's comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean...
...narrow (147 to 125) margin. Shortly after, the House's watchdog Armed Services Investigation Subcommittee fired off 840 questionnaires to 100 leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves. If not, they'll become suspect. If you enlist brains for the sake of brains, there is nothing wrong. But if you enlist names for the sake of contacts, that is wrong...
...House Veterans' Affairs Committee unanimously approved a veterans' pension reform bill that could save the taxpayers an estimated $12 billion over the next four decades.The Administration-backed bill adopts a sliding-scale principle for determining how big a pension an elderly or partially disabled veteran may draw; the bigger his income from other sources, the smaller his pension. But, fearful of annoying veterans' organizations, the committee balked at an Administration proposal to count social security payments as income. The reforms apply only to future cases: no veteran now drawing a federal pension will get a cent less...
...walked out on a point that might have been easily conceded by a union less jealous of its prerogatives. Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had agreed to union demands for $10-a-week pay boost this year and $5 in 1960, enough to pay the stereotypers their highest scale anywhere in the U.S. (duplicated only in Detroit). In exchange, the paper asked the union to relinquish its uneconomic control over "base," the metal blocks on which engravings are laid. As it has been, a composing-room hand must take base blocks back to the stereotype department to be trimmed...
...regional offices of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow with the classy décor suited to the world's biggest manufacturer of advertising calendars and novelties. Last week Yvette Ward got the chance to use her woman's talent for refurbishing on an even grander scale. A week after the death of her husband, B. & B.'s President Charles A. Ward, she moved into his place as president. Hardly had she slipped her trim, horsewoman's figure (124 Ibs.) behind her husband's curved desk than she let everyone know that she meant...