Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many months, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson had been wanting to retire. The reason was simply that he was gradually going broke on his $12,000-a-year salary, which failed to cover entertaining on the scale required by his job. When Secretary Marshall took over, Acheson had consented to stay on only with the promise that he would be able to return to his law practice by July...
...Engineer. In the Colonia the man who has made actuality of an idea is a strapping, suntanned engineer named Bernardo Sayão Carvalho Araujo.* He knows the backlands, understands their need for large-scale immigration, and knows all about their lack of good roads and railways. A leader who wants to know how a man gets along with his neighbors,, how his crops are coming, he calls by first name many of the 15,000 settlers in the Colonia. Last week he was in Rio seeking money for the Colonia, for the Government had paid not a cruzeiro...
...planning easy, Home Planners put out a $1.50 book containing 26 house designs, chiefly moderately priced one-story, ranch-type; for another $5 it sold complete blueprints. But Robinson's bright idea was to sell also, for $1.50, a colored cut-out cardboard model of the house in scale. Easily put together, the model showed the prospective builder just how the whole house would look before he started building. It even contained cardboard pieces scaled to the size of furniture...
Suffering from a teacher shortage that precludes any large-scale expansion, and a dearth of facilities that requires a finely-adjusted schedule, the Chemistry Department is doing its best to handle all comers. Despite the hoterogeneous demands and varied abilities of its students, the department has achieved a standard that ranks it with the country's best and this reputation stones in part for its minor shortennilngs. But the significance of this degree does not entirely compensate for the overtime hours in the lab, and until the Department can achieve a more equitable balance between professional requirements and undergraduate limitations...
While Republicans in Washington quarreled over "blind" budget cuts, Tom Dewey won approval for a record $671,900,000 in expenditures, highest in the state's history. Recognizing the need for higher salaries for teachers, he adopted a new scale which was the highest in the nation (but still somewhat less than the teachers had asked). He approved a referendum on a veterans' bonus which would cost the state $400 million, plus interest...