Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Negro, serving his third term for robbery, was describing a desperate interlude at Georgia's Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...
...bring the British economy into healthy balance and end inflation might have called for expansion of national productivity on a scale such as West Germany has achieved. But British workmen, though 99% employed, adhere to their old habits of featherbedding; and many British employers shy away from free competition, and prefer obsolescence to bestirring themselves...
Algeria's rebels, beaten in open combat, decided on a parallel program of their own. They "atomized" their bands and resorted to hit-and-run terrorism-assassination, small-scale ambushes, and intimidation, mostly carried out at night and out of reach of French forces. Last week, the night before the land distribution was to take place at Saint Lucien, a small group of rebels sneaked into town...
While prewar Greek ships were sorrylooking rustbuckets, Niarchos has turned out some of the handsomest merchantmen afloat. To get top seamen, Niarchos pays his Italian, Greek, German and British crews more than they would earn under their own national flags (but less than one-third of the U.S. scale), equips his new tankers with air conditioning, lavish private quarters for all hands, tiled showers, TV, elevators, recreation rooms...
...Report results from the first large-scale study of attitudes and life-experiences of Soviet citizens. Detailed questionnaires and extended interviews probed many aspects of life under the Soviets. The experts questioned about 3,000 former Soviet citizens who had left Russia during and after the second World War. Most of them were moved out of their homeland involuntarily by the Germans as prisoners of war or as workers. Such mass-interview techniques are not used, or permitted, inside the Soviet Union...