Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends of the sculptor and sponsors who have located the original small-scale model plan to get the City of Chicago and private contributors to put up some $5,000,000 for the reconstruction. Law forbids them to erect it on the grounds of the Capitol or the Library of Congress, and, thanks to an amendment by Congressman John Costello of Hollywood, they will not be able to set it down in the Tidal Basin, or in the reflecting pool before Lincoln's austere memorial. But there are lots of other conspicuous places in Washington...
...Great Britain the Government's pleasure was mixed with regret that the U.S. had not gone into action sooner. For earlier in the week at Tokyo, Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie had conceded to Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recognition of "hostilities on a large scale" and the "special requirements of the Japanese forces in China." Although Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disagreed, to almost everybody else Great Britain had taken a diplomatic licking...
Today Sam and Bill and Louis Kapp, a young laundry worker who was their first salesman, have 225 employes, by next month's end will have 300 working three shifts. Over the boards, six draftsmen and eight designers wield pen and T square turning out drawings for scale models of most U.S. military and commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper...
...remaining power to Army extremists, nor the British, who are playing for time, wanted to break off the Tokyo conversations. Finally Sir Robert and Foreign Minister Arita agreed to a vague compromise formula: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the actual situation in China, where hostilities on a large scale are in progress. . . . The Japanese forces in China have special requirements for the purpose of safeguarding their own security and maintaining public order. . . . His Majesty's Government have no intention of countenancing any acts or measures prejudicial to the attainment of the above-mentioned onjects...
Hemmed in by Government competition, the utilities were cut off from new capital markets. Wendell Willkie cried out for private operation Binder full Government supervision. In vain. He advocated a revolving fund of $100,000,000 to finance private rural expansion, promising low rates if big-scale operation were made possible, while other bigshots in the utility field cringed at the rumpus that Willkie kicked...