Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built a 100-lb. model, lugged it to the Army's aviation laboratories at Wright Field. "They said I'd better just go back home and forget the whole thing." Thereupon he hied himself to Washington, tracked down Grover Loening, wangled priorities to build a full-scale model...
...American people in matters of their government's operation," stated Visiting Lecturer in Government, A. Palmer yesterday. Palmer, professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, near Columbus, Ohio, cited the recent Gallup poll showing that only a third of United States citizens know their senators are, and advocated scale adult political education by unions...
...clear even to Franklin Roosevelt. Nelson's friends pictured him as the friend of little business and reconversion, bravely battling the Army, the Navy, and Charlie Wilson. Wilson, however, insisted that it was he who eight months ago had drawn up WPB's only full-scale reconversion plans...
Tsitsin, a small, black-mustached scientist, showered with all manner of Soviet awards, gets $15,000,000 a year from the Government for large-scale studies in "grain economics for non-fertile soil." He has grown fruit on vegetable vines, vegetables on trees (e.g., beans grafted on willows, tomatoes on a South American fruit tree called "tsfamalda"). For 15 years he has worked toward a perfect wheat: one which would come up year after year without seeding, resist drought and disease, survive killing winters, wind and rain, yield at least 25 bushels an acre...
...time, civil peace is necessary; otherwise whole classes will be pushed into the enemy camp. The first goal now is the defeat of Japan. Next, China's feudalism must be uprooted. For the present China's Communists believe that China is too low in the scale of economic evolution for socialism. They encourage capitalist enterprise as a comparatively progressive stage...