Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Druge, like many another Westerner, believes that there exists a vast conspiracy in the East to keep the West Coast an undernourished industrial stepchild. The onset of World War II gave the West basic industries on a scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing...
...Deal Senators, Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia and James E. Murray of Montana, backed by labor's legions (C.I.O., A.F. of L., and the National Farmers Union) ordered a grand-scale attack. They demanded that the Federal Government pay a top unemployment compensation of $35 a week for 104 weeks (to a man with three dependents who had been earning $48 or more). Most of this would come right out of the Federal Treasury, as a gift...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...
...Perhaps the psychiatrists, now for the first time having a chance on a large scale . . . are having a field day. . . . It is easy to believe that an undisciplined boy with a spoiled-child complex, an aversion to Army life, a dislike for doing what he is told or a fear of personal injury, gets no help from having his tantrums or fears dignified into psychoneuroses and phobias and learning to talk about himself in psychiatric terms. If ten thousand osteopaths were added to the examining staff, there would probably be an amazing increase in the number of draftees whose vertebrae...
...which the whole world puts chips to guarantee the lenders against loss. In ordinary opera tion the Bank will guarantee loans floated privately. It also has power to take part of a loan too big for private markets, and to make direct loans on a relatively small scale if they cannot be floated privately...