Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion of Ike's remarks was a ground-breaking ceremony at Shippingport, Pa. for the world's first full-scale commercial atomic power plant. Speaking from Denver, Ike said the plant would bring mankind "closer to the fulfillment of the ancient dream of a new and better earth...
Newsday staffers, who have voted against the Newspaper Guild, are paid at about the national Guild scale plus a bonus of close to 6% every year. "To prevent office politics." all five of Newsday's top executives (Managing Editor Hathway; Ad Manager Ernest Levy, 55; Business Manager Harold Ferguson, 47; Production Manager Allan Woods, 41; Circulation Manager Jack Mullen, 43) get the same salary. Since 85% of its circulation is home-delivered, Newsday has one of the largest forces of carrier boys (3,000) in the U.S. The paper paternally treats the most enterprising ones royally to new bikes...
...primitively bold way. Part of a set of 13 oils recently discovered in Auburn, N.Y., they went on show this week in a tent on the grounds of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown. Nobody knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player and horse trader, who exhibited them, together with...
Pick will stay on as chief executive officer of the mine, while Atlas will set up a subsidiary to get the property into big-scale production. At present Pick is digging out 1,500 tons of ore a month and selling it to the AEC at a clear profit of $32 a ton. Odium soon hopes to step that up to 10,000 tons a month. Said he: "Uranium is the oil of tomorrow, and tomorrow isn't very far away...
...possible to destroy a nation's capacity and will to retaliate. Only our ability and our announced willingness to take decisive action during the present period might still resolve the issue between world freedom and world slavery. Soon the Kremlin will be militarily ready to launch a large-scale surprise assault on the United States. Our current strength in air power and nuclear weapons, thus far the major deterrent to all-out war, has not been exploited in our reaction to continued local aggression...