Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the scars of their 1948 splinter wounds still throbbing painfully, Southern Democrats demonstrated last week that another full-scale revolt against the party's Northern leadership is one of the farthest things from their minds in 1956 -civil rights...
...trying to pull a fast one: New Delhi said its bid was based on cement prices quoted to it directly by the Soviet Union. In its headlong rush to woo, Russia had been willing to sell more cheaply to India than to Burma, a country which in the Communist scale of things is not as important...
...that both patients had been dosed with sodium nitrite, a powerful poison used as a hospital cleansing agent, instead of sodium phosphate, a mild cathartic. Shocked hospital authorities refused to explain the matter until they had made an investigation, but the district attorney's office, opening a full-scale inquiry, indicated that an employee of the hospital pharmacy had been temporarily transferred to other work. He apparently had reached for the wrong container...
...year 2000, the committee figured, the world's atomic power plants will be producing enough krypton 85 to raise appreciably the radioactivity of the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Other gases given off at fuel-processing plants, e.g., iodine 131, can do even worse on a local scale. The committee points out that unfavorable weather conditions around a processing plant can concentrate the gases intensely...
...speed U.S. efforts, Gore and Democratic Representative Chet Holifield of California are pushing the Gore-Holifield bill (8-2725 and HR-10805), directing the Federal Government to build six full-scale atomic power plants in different regions of the U.S. Gore says his proposal is "simply a matter of getting the job done as quickly as possible." Actually it raises the old issue of public v. private power in a new form. If the bill should become law, private industry would be pushed aside and public atomic power would be strategically located in six choice areas. Moreover, operating under...