Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have seen folks come here with gleaming white skins and they are in such a hurry to acquire color they lie about in the sun for hours. And, ironical as it is to a Negro, the darker they are the higher they stand in the summer-resort social scale...
Said Bagrianoff: "The majority of the Bulgarian people never wanted to interfere in a large-scale conflict between great powers. The Government declares it fully recognizes this. It is determined to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of the Bulgarian people's love for peace...
...This war will certainly end with a large-scale social organization of mankind, both horizontally and vertically. It will end with certain achievements as far as the form of government is concerned . . . will lead to the strengthening of the democratic concept ... to more political freedom for the individual. It will end with achievements in the economic field that will reduce the exploitation...
...government cultivates the masses as diligently as they cultivate the soil.For outstanding production, farmers and workers win citations, newspaper publicity, awards. Industry (oil, pig iron, light machinery, light arms, paper, textiles) is primitive and small-scale. But all labor is unionized, guaranteed decent wages, penalized for absenteeism, tardiness...
Georgia's grey Walter F. George had a considerably more modest plan to cushion the U.S. worker against a postwar depression. He proposed that each state fix its own scale of unemployment compensation (which at present ranges from $2-a-week minimum in Alabama to $22-a-week maximum in Connecticut), and that the states continue to foot the bill. The Federal Government would step in only if a state could not meet all payments; then it would lend, not give funds...