Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning with a propeller that could be operated from an exact replica of B-29 controls, and ending with a mockup of a whole plane in which student reactions could be tested when things went wrong. Charts and graphs of fuel and electrical systems were also converted into full-scale mockups, covered with Plexiglas or painted in bright colors so that students could see what happened when they worked the controls. Result: fascinated trainees now finish their course in one-third the previous time...
...four white men sitting at Versailles took Shantung, the sacred province of China, and tried to award it to Japan. Japan invaded that province again in 1927, took Manchuria in 1931, and bit off three other pieces of Chinese territory in the next six years before starting full-scale war in 1937. In addition, several other nations were meddling in China's affairs, trying to prevent her achieving real unity and strength. Naturally the Chinese were not able to get their revolution completed and a modern, efficient, unified, and democratic government...
...millions have embraced this creed. In fact, the Communists have organized groups in every nation of the globe - a worldwide movement. ... If a strong, free-enterprise America wishes to combat this worldwide movement and survive, if it wishes to compete economically with centrally directed economic planning on a colossal scale, which has hardly begun as yet to operate, then TIME magazine owes it to the America it believes in to present facts, studies, analyses, objective reporting, and soundly based mature conclusions rather than the stream of adolescent sneers and verbal spitballs in which TIME is now indulging and which does...
...prospered. As his herds grew, so did his scale of living. He built himself a mansion which was the showplace of Wyoming: a 20-room structure of brownstone and pine lumber with a towering cupola, newfangled plumbing and acetylene lights. Impressed, the Indians took to calling him the Big Father, his house the Big Tepee. But the Big Tepee was only a beginning. To house his 200 employes the Big Father built a town, with hotel, saloon, store and school, incorporated it as Lost Cabin, Wyo. He made himself mayor, carried a deputy sheriff's badge...
Labor, sticking to the view that the failure of markets to keep industry busy is largely due to "oversaving" by business and by individuals of the higher income groups, would scale its tax reductions so that the low income groups would be the chief beneficiaries. It proposes individual tax exemptions that would free a family of four from all taxes on incomes up to $2,750. But it also proposes to raise $12 billion (about ten times prewar) from the individual income tax-which would mean that tax rates in upper brackets could be reduced very little. It proposes...