Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taylor lays considerable emphasis on the question of the scope of committee power and argues that "Personal compunctions cannot be permitted to obstruct valid official inquiries, but they are entitled to weight in the scales when legal authority is lacking." Even then, Taylor finds an apparent obligation on the part...
Natural Barrier. Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with...
Naturally, New England textile manufacturers were lined up with the T.W.U. in this case. Continued lower wages in the South help to hold them under a serious disadvantage. Management and labor outside the textile industry were deeply interested too. If the Holtzoff ruling is finally upheld by the U.S. Supreme...
Cash & Collars. IBM was created by Thomas John Watson Sr., who built it into the 37th ranking U.S. manufacturing corporation, and in so doing, carved out an American business legend for himself. Watson, who believes that "nobody really gets started until he's 40." worked for Dayton's...
The customers are not only mercilessly fleeced (watered milk, tapped scales) but also lectured on the virtues of the Germans, the vices of the French, the cunning treachery of the Jews. Papa Poissonard is a happy man: "He had found the means to be systematically dishonest, that dream of all...