Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs and British control Palestine. Arab leaders, fearful that large-scale Jewish immigration with its land acquisition and higher living standards would loosen their hold on the Arab masses, have continually urged Britain, the mandatory power, to restrict further Jewish entry. Pledged by the Balfour Declaration and the League Mandate to help establish a Jewish State in Palestine, the British have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were...
...outnumber them, control the land, and then be in a position to claim all of Palestine as their own. They backed up their argument with threats, and the British, perhaps overestimating Arab capacity to cause trouble, backed down, stating that the additional British troops necessary to carry out large scale immigration made the plan unworkable from an Empire viewpoint...
...Army inoculated some 7,000,000 G.I.s, found in large-scale tests that the vaccine gave protection in three cases out of four. Last week the first mass civilian inoculation began at Yale University. The University health office, anticipating an epidemic of Type A influenza, planned to vaccinate most of its 10,000 students, faculty and employes (cost per shot...
Improvement of the present large survey courses, and the question of why the College has had difficulty in obtaining competent section men, plus an inquiry into their pay scale, will occupy the third board. Leslie Ritner '45 will serve as chairman...
...found out enough to doubt that the department-store system would work on a national scale.* For one thing, personnel costs might leave the Government little net return (in New Orleans the 230 clerks were unpaid volunteers). And the elimination of red tape made it too easy for nonveterans to get surpluses by borrowing a set of discharge papers...