Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanks and heavy guns have all the peacetime business they can use, and firms like Krupp want no part of the risk and none of the stigma of becoming munitions makers again. Furthermore, weapons are in a transitional stage, and Germans do not want to commit themselves to large-scale production until the weapons of the future have taken clear shape...
Last January, when Edinburgh's new Director Robert Ponsonby invited the After Dinner group to come, the company scoffed. It would cost a cool $20,000, even cutting corners, they estimated, and who had that kind of money for small-scale, modern opera? Then a fat check arrived from one admirer, and the company eagerly plunged into commercialism to raise the rest. Singers Jeanne Beauvais, Norman Myrvik, Francis Barnard and Musical Director Lucille Burnham gave all the concerts they could. Stage Manager Beth Leibowitz made and sold ceramics, while Company Manager Richard Flusser hopefully entered a TV quiz show...
...increasing population, the vast new opportunities unlocked by the atom, and the whole new field of electronics all help to assure continued high employment and demand for goods. But Martin contends that the risk of boom and bust is too dangerous, since the FRB is powerless to reverse full-scale depression. It takes more than easy credit to persuade a businessman to turn out goods for which there is no market. Argues Martin: "The Federal Reserve cannot turn the economy off and on like a faucet. But we can minimize fluctuations, and we have the responsibility to do that...
HIGH PRESSURE DEALERS, who specialize in unlisted and speculative issues, will get full-scale investigation. SEC has received so many complaints of blitz telephone campaigns to sell often-worthless issues that it is already investigating at least six Manhattan firms...
What makes the film worth seeing is the wholehearted cooperation of the U.S. Navy, which allowed the cast and cameramen aboard for its 1955 operation in the Caribbean when some 200 ships and 10,000 Marines joined in the largest-scale amphibious maneuvers in history. With the aid of clips from combat film, the details of training, the assaults on Jap-held islands, the rescue missions and the chilling kamikaze attacks off Okinawa are brought vividly to life. Not so effective are the inevitable flashbacks to civilian life and love, featuring Julie Adams...