Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary committee showed that every M.P. spent an average of three-quarters of his meager $2,800 yearly salary on expenses (using whatever space was available in lounge or restaurant for an office), it had been obvious to all that Britain's legislators were grossly underpaid. The pay scale of M.P.s was determined originally on the theory that they were gentlemen of means-as they originally were, before laboring men (some of whom now get supplementary pay from unions) and poorer Tories came to dominate the House...
...white man, "Where are your lands now?", his figure of Crazy Horse points its tragic answer with a 300-ft. arm : "My lands are where my dead lie buried." The figure has been outlined with paint (143 gallons), and is to stand in the round on the majestic scale of 563 ft. in height by 641 ft. in length. Standing Bear touched off the first charge of dynamite on June 3, 1948 (each blast removes about 200 tons of rock), and the sculpting has been going on ever since. So have arguments...
Finished at 117? To feed his large-scale family (Ziolkowski and his wife Ruth have six children, are expecting a seventh) and to help finance his dream, he bought cows and established a successful dairy farm, bought and successfully operated a sawmill. He and his wife milk the .cows (by machine), manage the sawmill, shepherd the tourists and keep digging at the mountain. At times they startle visitors by coming in from work in mountain-and-barn clothes and appearing for dinner a few minutes later in formal dress...
INTERCONTINENTAL SNARK missile is going into large-scale production, will be first missile with 5,000-mile range assigned to operational units of Strategic Air Command. Air Force will give Northrop Aircraft, Inc. a $73 million contract to turn out subsonic Snark...
...from Wall Street, but from Main Street." Instead of turning, like other steelmen, to J.P. Morgan & Co., Weir sold bonds to the public. With new equipment, Weir operated on a stubbornly independent policy of "no order too little, none too big." He supplied Detroit automakers on a booming scale that yielded National Steel a profit during every Depression year, made it the only U.S. steel company in the black in Depression...