Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago area was under drastic coal and electric power conservation restrictions. Manufacturers and other large power users were cut to 24 hours of operation a week. Stores, theaters, amusement places were permitted only four hours' use of electricity a day. Large-scale layoffs of workers in the Chicago area had begun...
...bright blue yonder is not going to be big enough to hold it. Last week the Air Forces' bright young men, who don't have to be very bright to know that the planes of World War II are already obsolete, were busy promoting a grand-scale Air Engineering Development Center for studying and testing the air weapons of tomorrow. They talked Buck Rogers language. Some topics: supersonic aircraft-piloted and pilotless-planes and rockets powered by nuclear energy, space ships, space bases that would float above the atmosphere, where gravity's pull is weak...
Home owners insisted on erecting immediate, temporary shantytowns on the site of their former homes, blocked Le Corbusier's efforts for large-scale reconstruction projects. Even in completely leveled towns like Saint-Dié in the Vosges mountains, deep-rooted French villagers wanted just what they had before the war. Sighed Le Corbusier: "They don't want a new, clean, modern town. They just want to rebuild their same old hovels on the same old spots where their grandfathers built them...
...running them in conjunction with the government. Realizing the drop-in-bucket inadequacy of this effort, an administrative committee is quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting negotiations with the Cambridge City Council for erection of a small-scale project on the site of the Botanical Gardens. But while the talk and search for a needle in the haystack goes on, the University's hesitancy to assume positive responsibility becomes apparent...
Millions of labor unionists, Communists and leftist forces marched through the capitals of the world on May Day in the first large-scale celebration of the Communist holiday since...