Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor, facing the Taft-Hartley Act, reacted swiftly. John Lewis' coal miners struck back with a sweeping wildcat strike through the nation's coal fields. In his cocked fist Lewis held the threat of a full-scale strike. The rest of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. mobilized in an effort to destroy the new law, by constitutional and more peaceful means, in the courts...
...other end of the scale, the grassy banks of the Charles River looked something like Coney Island during the mid-afternoon. Studying, in spite of omni-present books, seemed at a minimum...
...lull in communal fighting. But last week it flared again at Lahore in the Punjab. In the Gurgaon district near Delhi, Moslem and Hindu-Sikh tribes still burned and looted each other's villages. There, for the first time in communal riots, firearms were used on a big scale by each side. The embattled tribes had been turning out homemade wooden rifles, six feet long. In a divided India, where 38 million Moslems are still within the borders of Hindu India, 18 million Hindus and two million Sikhs within Pakistan, few supposed that political deals in Delhi could really...
...Public Health Service's unspectacular mass X rays of the population (for early T.B. detection) have done most to take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite...
Retreat. The bad news was that the great hopes placed in the "wonder drug," streptomycin, as a T.B. cure have not entirely materialized. The experts at San Francisco heard a report on the first large-scale test of streptomycin. More than 800 cases were treated by the Veterans Administration, the Army and the Navy...