Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assuring all officers that the union would not punish them for pleading the Fifth Amendment if called to testify (TIME, Feb. 4)-a defiance which contributed to the creation by the Senate last week of a special, well-financed ($350,000) committee to make a full-scale study of labor corruption...
...where it hurt, Gonzales went to work to overcome his love of calories, late hours and long snoozes. He practiced hard, played his way back up to the salary scale, last year made $40,000 for demoralizing ex-Wimbledon and ex-U.S. Champion Tony Trabert, 74 matches to 27. He pushed his game to such a high peak that when Kramer tried to talk Australian Lew Hoad into turning pro this year, Hoad snapped back: "I don't think I'm ready. Pancho probably would chew...
TIDELANDS FIGHT has forced California to stop leasing its offshore oil lands until controversial royalties scale is reconsidered. State formerly leased lands that had not been prospected for 12½% flat royalty, lands with probable oil at higher sliding scale. But some legislators charge that oil companies have prospected lands secretly, tried to lease them at the flat rate...
...Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this miraculous stunt. The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol...
Gulf's decision followed passage of a new oil law by the Chamber and Senate after long debate. The law sets up a sliding royalty scale splitting the profits 60-40 in favor of the government, instead of the usual 50-50 split. It also contains a set of clauses designed to favor E.N.I. Example: when a private company brings in a new field, its concession is automatically restricted to 7,413 acres around each well, thus allowing E.N.I, to move in and buy up the land all around the proven field...