Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Canadians seem to think so-among them Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. "There is an intangible sense of disquiet in Canada over the political implications of large-scale and continuing external ownership and control of Canadian industries," he says...
...drive. As for his wife and partner Darlene, she sounds as if she were singing in a closet through several folds of cheesecloth. In songs like Autumn in New York and You're Blasé, she launches into the lyrics exquisitely off pitch, gropes up and down the scale in bewildered search...
...event, says the State Department, the mere granting of routes does not mean an immediate, full-scale competitive attack on U.S. carriers. Of the 62 agreements between the U.S. and foreign nations, 32 have still not been put into action, and many will probably never take effect because of the cost of setting up an airline. But this is one argument that really riles U.S. airlines. While it is true that the airline business is getting more expensive, the fact that international airlines are also instruments of national prestige means that every nation, big or little, wants one, and that...
...Wilde. And not without reason. For as industry shifts to the countryside, it can build with a streamlined efficiency almost impossible in the interlocking gridiron of big-city interests. Connecticut General, designed by the Manhattan office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is a prime example of the best in large-scale planning, functional building and site development...
Reticent Americans. Buchwald's replies ran from the tersest reasons, e.g., "Suez," "John Foster Dulles," to full-scale defenses of Americans by British admirers. He concluded last week that Americans would be better liked in Britain if they "would stop spending money, talking loudly in public places, telling the British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak...