Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form of a "second Boston Tea Party." Cried Milling Executive Paul Rothwell, chairman for the tea party: "It's silly to send tractors or plows to Afghanistan when the people there don't know how to use them."* Across the U.S. and across the economic scale, a Seattle fabrication-plant employee echoed: "Instead of giving all that money to foreigners we'd better start giving some to our own people...
Meanwhile, psychiatrists were having a field day with ataraxics-drugs to help bring about mental wellbeing. They found plenty of tranquilizers, excellent for overactive, agitated patients, but none that was much good for those at the opposite end of the scale, suffering from depression; in fact, some tranquilizers induced worsened depression. Then researchers hit on half-forgotten iproniazid. At New York's Rockland State Hospital three doctors gave the drug to 14 patients suffering from depression for which there was no cause to be found in physical illness, got good results in twelve, had to stop the drug...
Washington, April 12--A large-scale investigation of the nation's financial condition, including taxes, interest charges and debt, was voted unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee today in a surprise move...
...LACROSSE MISSILE, U.S. Army's surface-to-surface bird designed to carry a nuclear or conventional warhead about ten miles for close ground support, is going into large-scale production by Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin. Missile and truck launcher can be airdropped to troops, will probably be delivered to Army units by summer...
...education, according to Bender, should be "to preserve the human scale, the unique individual against metropolis and mass...