Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief element in the climate, and beginning to be savored by all, was the fact that the U.S. was producing goods for peace again, and on a vast scale. Industrial output was skyrocketing, bottlenecks were disappearing, employment was at a record 56,740,000. It was possible that there would be an acute labor scarcity by autumn...
...Sake. Men like Williams and Bailey have worked hard in recent years to raise the artists' pay scale. But few New York cartoonists will send their work to David Smart's Esquire, in Chicago, until it has been rejected by their favorite magazine. Reason: Esquire still pays as low as $22.50 for stoppers...
Meanwhile the Finns are resigned to keeping on "friendly" terms with Russia, building up their export trade, following a Red-Green domestic policy that has not yet resulted in large-scale nationalization of industry or redistribution of land. The Finns are moving slowly and quietly, like a man tiptoeing for fear he'll wake a rough-&-ready neighbor...
...principle*made it all easy. In the hippo's tank they rigged up a contraption consisting of a hollow tube (stuck vertically in the water) enclosing a float attached to a moving arm arranged to swing around a marked scale. (On the basis of Archimedes' principle, the markings had been calibrated to register the weight of the water displaced, easily calculated from water's known weight by volume...
When Pete plunged in, the rising water raised the float, which moved the arm, which pointed on the scale. Pete's weight...