Word: scales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week, Oilman Ralph K. Davies sealed the deal that he hoped would make his American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1) one of the biggest U.S. producers in the Middle East. Said Davies: "A forward-looking . . . chapter in the history of oil ... The first time a large-scale oil operation has been undertaken in the Middle East by independents...
...Servicemen's Readjustment Act." Said Truman scathingly: "For reasons which are quite understandable, the Republican leaders of the House of Representatives insisted upon calling this measure a 'housing bill.' " This "hasty patchwork," he said, failed to provide farm housing, slum clearance, financial aid for large-scale home construction, prefabricated housing, or low-cost rental housing. Cried Harry Truman: "In this case, as in many others, the 80th Congress has failed miserably...
...late Jules S. Bache, longtime Dome Mines president. Michel, trustee of the estate, had sold the stock to pay estate taxes. He had not foreseen the dividend slash (it was forced by a rise in Canada's cost-of-living index, to which the company's wage scale is tied). Obviously, said Michel, after what had happened the decent thing was to take back the stock. That was just what he had done...
...Victors. One theme dominates the first half of The Gathering Storm: the insensate folly of the victors of World War I in allowing the wicked to rearm. Churchill himself steadfastly warned the world against Hitler's progress from conquest to conquest, to crimes without equal "in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record." That he was personally happy during these bitter years-painting, writing and lecturing-does not seem to lessen their pain in his memory...
Both sides were still talking belligerently and boasting of famous victories-by-communiqué. The sober facts were that fighting so far had been on a small scale,* that (except for Arab raids into Galilee) all of it had taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant...