Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S. audiences were receptive but occasionally puzzled. The sitar itself is a confusing-looking instrument, shaped like an oversized guitar (up to 12 ft. long) and equipped with six playing strings, 13 "sympathetic" resonating strings, and two gourds which serve as sound box and resonator. Indian music is based on...
Boobs & Crooks. In the end, Author Schlesinger damages his own case, for even Roosevelt admirers are bound to be distressed by the way in which Schlesinger weights his scales with selected evidence to drag down businessmen and to hoist F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of...
Do It for Less. When the ban on radiomaking was lifted, Grundig expanded fast by marrying German craftsmanship to U.S. production-line methods. He was greatly helped by Germany's low wage scales, pruned the bill further by employing women in 60% of the jobs.
Because freight produces nearly 90% of operating revenue, the railroads are concentrating on ways to improve freight handling. The Pennsylvania, for example, is in the midst of a $34 million program to turn its 74-year-old Conway yard near Pittsburgh into the nation's most modern electronic freight...
His opponents are out to show themselves more eager to reunify Germany than he is. Adenauer's Socialist rivals (whose leader Erich Ollenhauer is going to Washington too) have switched their talk from Marx to marks to catch West Germany's huge prosperity vote, and are seeking to...