Word: scaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Opera, Italian style, is flourishing in all its prewar luxuriance-a little haphazard by German standards but vocally superb. While in Rome I witnessed an outdoor performance of Aïda with nearly a thousand people in the cast of characters, done on a lavish scale that made Radio City Music Hall look like a miniature. Italy shows no signs of a cultural letdown. It is excited, exuberant and ready...
...Auburn Streets, which now lies at least 75 per cent vacant. At the same time, faced with protests from House residents (presumably non-ear owners) the University has disallowed overnight parking in such areas as the Eliot-Winthrop quadrangle, while the Cambridge police have inaugurated a full-scale campaign to enforce the fire law which prohibits parking on any municipal street between 2 and 4 A.M. For many students who must have automobiles in Cambridge for commuting and other purposes and for those who drove to College from home with no idea of the situation that now confronts them...
...Large scale immigration offers no threat to the national economy. for the most part unskilled today as in 1900, the potential immigrants could, to a large extent, alleviate the present manpower shortage existing chiefly in unskilled labor fields and could not budge high wage scales which are securely guarded by organized labor. Similarly, immigrants present no long-run unemployment problems, for industry, expanding under the impetus of increased demand and technological advancement, would absorb them. Finally, a sizable increase in our population and birth rate would do much to overcome a trend which now threatens to leave us far behind...
...fact is that some Merchant Seamen at the very beginning of the war were granted bonuses far out of line with the wage scales of the armed forces. These bonuses covered the trip to Murmansk, a brutal voyage, but a voyage that involved less than 10 per cent of the two hundred thousand men who were active wartime seamen. When losses on the North Atlantic dropped off, bonuses were cut, and the wage scale of the Merchant Marine, figured on an annual basis, was aligned with that of the Army and Navy so that no great difference existed...
...first exchange of ideas on any large scale came last Saturday night, when--in the best New England tradition--the first Town Meeting was held. Rents held the center of interest, and fact finding committees were set up to look into the whys and wherefores of rents, transportation. FPHA projects, and the organization of recreation. Mr. Taft, who spent the evening trying to find suitable answers, was optimistic. "It was a corker," he said...