Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's request for changes in the Taft-Harley Act is on the whole sound legislation, according to Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations at the Business School. The major need in labor relations today is a law to prevent strikes on a national scale in vital-industries, Selekman said...
...scale of aid was not great enough; the purpose was divided, and therefore rendered ineffective. In the beginning, U.S. policy did not adequately recognize that a first-class rebellion was in progress which required swift and powerful measures...
...Française transmits from atop the Eiffel Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian nightclub shows (uncensored). Throughout the rest...
Kline thought the Hope-Aiken Act and its sliding scale of price props were just right. The Middle Western farmers thought so too, helped Kline defeat the Southern proposal and got the federation to go on record in favor of the Hope-Aiken Act. But it also urged Congress to enact a permanent law making any agricultural commodity eligible for price support. No one suggested that the farmers prove they were the free enterprisers they fancied themselves by eventually doing away with all price supports, any more than other businessmen would do away with tariffs...
...less popular were John Cobb's* scrutiny of U.S.A.A.F. men & manners in wartime England, The Gesture (also a first novel), James Gould Cozzens' Guard of Honor, an admirable study of base life at a U.S. flying field, and Theodor Plievier's gruesome Stalingrad, a broad-scale battle picture whose forceful "documentary" slant made it more fact than fiction...