Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
Largely under the liberal pressure of the Colonial Office in London, the Federal government, which was soon dominated by the white settler population of Southern Rhodesia, has allowed reduced segregation, university integration, and limited participation of Africans in government. But the scale and speed of these advances have not satisfied the increasingly articulate nationalists, who fear that if the Federation is accorded dominion status when the question comes up in 1960, the colonialists will take advantage of their independence to suppress African rights. In line with the official policy, originally that of Cecil Rhodes, of giving the vote to every...
...limit on imports of crude oil and other petroleum products of 1,025,000 bbl. daily, compared to 1,113,600 bbl. daily under the voluntary system. The compulsory scheme would be enforced by a Government administrative agency. Other recommendations made by OCDM reportedly call for1) a sliding scale of import quotas for smaller oil companies, based on the imports between March1 and Sept.1, 1958; 2) no cuts of more than 20% from voluntary quotas for any major importer; 3) no cutbacks on imports of residual oil for industrial and home heating...
...world must find a way to prevent war from ever occurring if it is to avoid total destruction on the scale which I saw at Nagasaki," insisted Dr. Herbert W. Horne '37, in a speech last night before the World Federalists...
...military-actually represents a cut that would provide only $14.5 million in new money for civilian power reactors, v. $74 million authorized last year. AEC would drop six projects intended for 1959, including a 100,000-kw. heavy-water reactor, an experimental reactor fueled by molten salt, a small-scale pressurized water reactor, and three small experimental reactors. In their place, it would add six entirely new projects at about the same cost...