Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the collectors resort to all kinds of ruses to catch those with hidden incomes. A French tax form asks: How many servants do you keep? What horsepower is your car? Do you own a pleasure boat or a vacation home? This sort of questioning, designed to establish the scale of living, occasionally catches a tax evader, but more often it affects the economy like the old window tax in England. There, people bricked up their windows; in France, they hide their savings under the mattress, thereby withholding their cash from useful investment...
Famine into Feast? With considerable effort, the Carnegie Institution harvested about 100 Ibs. of this foodstuff, enough for testing its food value. Its report does not claim that it will be easy to grow algae on a really large scale. One possible way to overcome some of the difficulties: developing new strains of algae that will grow efficiently under factory conditions, including higher temperatures. But even without improvements, the Carnegiemen believe that their pilot plant can produce 17.5 tons of dry algae per acre per year. Soybeans, which contain less protein than algae do, average only...
Time Out for Beer. By the time he was 33, Dulles, then chief of the State Department's Near Eastern Affairs Division, had a family and the realization that he could not maintain the scale of living that would be required of him in any more exalted diplomatic job. In 1926, after getting a law degree from George Washington University in his scarce spare time, he went back to New York to join brother John Foster in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. For the next 15 years he made money as a Wall Street lawyer...
...moving into a new world," says Burnet, who did much to open a new world of virus research (TIME, Dec. 8), "and we must be always alert to look beyond the immediate effect of some new procedure to see what the logical outcome of its large-scale use will be. Antibacterial drugs, like measures to prevent the spread of infection or immunization procedures, are potent weapons, but to the biologist they are merely new factors . . . [among] which the microorganisms of infection must struggle to survive. We must never underestimate the potentialities of our enemies...
...Nylon Bed Sheets. Pepperell Manufacturing Co. announced the world's first large-scale production of nylon bed sheets and pillow cases. Woven with more air spaces between threads to allow the material to "breathe," the contour sheets can be washed and dried in a jiffy, need no ironing. Price: $7.50 for double sheets, $5.95 for single, $1.95 for pillow cases, about the same as the most expensive percale...