Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bargaining, spoiling land and burning crops, a few coffee merchants and Government officials are comfortably rich -and 90% of the population is as poor as ever. Millions of tons of coffee lie in warehouses. Thousands of acres of coffee land have been abandoned to armies of ants, to small-scale farms, to be worked by the children of slaves, who have so lost their talent for farming that they use pointed sticks and wooden hoes in place of plows...
...said the board. If that were so, "inefficient producers would receive the benefit of a lower wage scale than efficient ones.". . . If the reason for [inability to pay] is managerial inefficiency, the employes should not be penalized by the denial of wage increases to which they are otherwise entitled...
...American seaman [I get] the benefits of the new wage scale [TIME, June 17] Grateful as I am, I am sorry. It spells the doom of our Merchant Marine. Our Government will not support by subsidy a class of aristocratic bums touring the world. There are a few honest, sincere, loyal seamen, [but] most of them are a disgrace to our country...
Completely ignoring the $900 million aid the U.S. has given Italy since 1943 and U.S. insistence that Russia scale down its Italian reparations demands, Molotov charged...
...Self-Running 10-Inch Scale-Model Delivery-Truck Kit Powered by Magic Motor"- a toy that is easily assembled by any father who follows the simple directions: "Pass Section F through Slot AA, taking care not to fold tabs behind washers (see Fig. 9). . . . Lock into box shape by inserting tabs C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L into slots C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L. . . ." - "with a bestial oath, I drove a safety pin through them and lashed them to the roof...