Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bomb, for one thing; but there are other potential horrors. The U.N.'s Commission for Conventional Armaments last week pondered the category of weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. Adviser Franklin A. Lindsay proposed this definition: "Any instrument or invention capable of destroying life and property on the scale of a plague, a flood, a famine or an earthquake...
...good. But this week, the conference's cooperation committee would have to ask the nations to scale down some demands, increase some offers. Nearly all snags had their roots in two commodities-coal and steel...
...fashion was tumbling down so fast that whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that...
...Long Night is an ambitious movie, with some glaring faults. Much of it is too loud, too sentimental, too insistent on giving grand-scale social meaning to an essentially personal story. Although the acting is unusually sincere, Vincent Price is too florid even for his florid role; Henry Fonda often counts too much on a sort of adenoidal pathos; Ann Dvorak is not very convincing as the other woman; and only Barbara Bel Geddes, making her screen debut, is really satisfactory...
...work to date is only a very funny burlesque of the Senate War Investigating Committee, whose activities saved the Government-billions of dollars and put Harry Truman in the political limelight. So far the worst that can be said of Hughes is that he used on a grand scale the same tactics that any small business man adopts when he invites a potential buyer home for dinner in the hope that the good cooking and flattery of the "little woman" will turn the trick. Hughes was not on a "cost plus" basis as were so many other contractors Any money...