Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...residential distribution of families and workers in a city is governed by (a) their length of residence in the city (b) their ability to pay for housing and transportation (c) their scale of value concerning the meet desirable quarter of the city d) the topography featured of the city (e) the location of hospitals and schools...
...knows that uranium is often a risky business, is not betting all his money on it. His company has set up a separate department of industrial development to invest in a whole new series of strategic metals. Climax owns thorium deposits in Colo rado, wants to expand into large-scale production of such other vital metals as nickel, cobalt and manganese, all needed for U.S. strategic stockpiles...
...through Colorado's Bartlett Mountain for the ore, call it "molly bedamned," and until World War I no one had much use for the metal. The Germans, then short of tungsten, first used it to harden the barrels of their Big Berthas. It was used on a large scale again in World War II. In peacetime, however, most steelmakers preferred tungsten; molybdenum production usually dropped off to a trickle...
PIGGYBACK TRUCK trailers (TIME, Feb. 22) will be put into large-scale operation for the first time on a major Eastern trunk line within the next few months. The New York Central will put on 420 special flatcars designed to carry two highway trailers back-to-back, will spend about $5,000,000 for terminals in five cities (Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Boston, Detroit) to handle the new service...
...steel industry (the amount of steel it buys) if it could find a way to get around the public's habit of buying cars in the spring and making the old one do during slumps. To even out buying, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther once suggested a sliding price scale with lower prices in slack seasons. But there is already such a sliding scale because of bigger trade-in allowances and discounts during the winter. And the industry is still subject to the ups and downs of boom and recession, which could easily exhaust G.A.W. funds...