Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first they tried to organize a full-scale army, but the whole organization fell apart in 1949 when one naive conspirator was arrested carrying a full membership list. Thereafter, Krim & Co. restricted themselves to a small "secret organization," theorizing that the rebellion could rally mass support once it got started. It was on this risky theory that they launched their revolt in 1954. "The French could have stopped us easily in the beginning," says Krim. "Now we can go on fighting for a hundred years...
...jeuner sur I'Herbe, Monet, then 25, began his manifesto, one of the greatest lost paintings of modern art. Gigantic in scale, the canvas measured 15 ft. by 19 ft., was referred to by one friend as "this huge sandwich which costs the earth." In it, Monet set out to prove how the sunlight actually filters through the trees, how a real picnic looks in the forest, how color glows in the shade. It was never shown. Monet had to leave it with the innkeeper as guaranty against his unpaid bill. He recovered it, found it largely ruined...
...sales in the second ten days of June posted a 6.8% increase in daily rate over the first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...
...grade coking coal. There may be important fisheries too, but few fishermen like to work off the dangerous, shelterless coast. So the region, which is virtually uninhabited, may be a good place for the world's first attempt (if the Russians do not do it first) at large-scale nuclear blasting...
...both biographies suggest, money on a big scale becomes a kind of magic potion. Common crotchets are taken for the stigmata of genius; petty fears mushroom to paranoia. A Gulbenkian day began with setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress...