Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused state, nothing is sure except that the old-style Communism does not work. Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka's economic planners no longer ask "Is it orthodox Marxism?" but "Will it work?" To get the sagging Polish economy working, they are encouraging many forms of small-scale capitalism, decentralizing state-owned industry, and letting independent peasant cooperatives take over the thousands of abandoned collective farms...
...sets of Good as Gold, especially a mammoth picturesque scale at Fort Knox, are quite gay and appropriate. The acting is not disappointing, but it cannot help much. Roddy Macdowall handles most of what can be done with the hero's role with buoyant competence, and Zero Mostel is often very funny, bellowing enough in his role as the jolly rascal to cover up some of the obviousness of his speeches. The rest of the cast is also adequately adept, but nothing about the production is bright enough to make the evening more than a nearly-made-it comedy...
Command Decision. In Paris, plagued by large-scale pilfering of coffee spoons, canteen officials at SHAPE headquarters nullified the problem-and the spoons -by punching a hole in the bowl of each...
Louis Waldman, chief ILA counsel, said, "We are glad to announce we have reached a meeting of minds between the ILA wage scale committee and the New York Shipping Association...
Much of the "paraphernalia" of modern educational practice should be done away with, Commager said. Large scale athletic programs, formal courses, grades, and many other costly and time consuming operations should be forsaken infavor of a self-educational approach, involving a more European attitude towards the learning process, he asserted...