Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lackawanna plant, workers accepted the terms with a whoop, convinced that the settlement was a triumph for S. W. O. C. Said Van A. Bittner, regional director and chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine...
...Corporation's old argument ignores the fact that football at Harvard is already a business-a big business which sells higher-priced seats than any theatre in town, rents expensive concessions to Stadium venders, publishes a magazine, and sells ads in it. Upon the success of this large-scale commercial venture the rest of the sports depend for finances. It is ridiculous to draw a line just short of the microphone and to declare that beyond that limit lies "commercialization...
After the war, the accumulated demand for new cars will ease the transition from the war to a peace economy. If large-scale borrowing, and high taxes to pay interest on the resultant debt, are used, then businessmen will be discouraged, will not increase their output of goods and their investment in new capital after...
...with several fairly intimate little pictures including It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It With You. They have also wowed the public with whoppers: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon. Director Capra, working without his Alter Ego Riskin, wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description). Mr. Deeds went to town to preach LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN (ditto). Among...
...today? A servile state, with its splendid strength caged up, hardly daring to breathe freely, governed by strangers from afar; her people poor beyond compare, short-lived and incapable of resisting disease and epidemic; illiteracy rampant; vast areas devoid of all sanitary or medical provision; unemployment on a prodigious scale, both among the middle classes and the masses...