Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musty chambers of Lima's venerable Gran Hotel Bolívar, over bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...
Although sanguine about the new cure, Shannon had two reservations: 1) its toxicity, which may cause anemia (probably only in dark-skinned races), has not yet been determined; 2) SN 13,276 has been tried out on less than a hundred patients, may pan out poorly in large-scale tests...
...backwash of postwar epidemics spread across China, carried by 60,000,000 louse-ridden refugees. Two months ahead of the virulent summer season, a cholera epidemic broke in Canton. Only cool weather prevented a full-scale epidemic in Hankow. Bubonic plague broke out in Foochow, and in north China was apparently moving on Peiping and Tientsin. Two planes carrying UNRRA medical supplies flew to Tientsin to meet the threat...
...nondangerous activities." In short, they based their plan on scientists' belief that 1) atomic bombs can be made only with uranium, or with plutonium produced from it,* 2) neither uranium nor plutonium in certain mixtures (which are called denatured) can be made explosive except by extremely difficult, large-scale, time-consuming processes...
This time the U.S. was ready for its homecoming soldiers, on a scale which men were just beginning to appreciate...