Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking advantage of a new law, the burgeoning defense agencies had been solving their manpower troubles by offering applicants the top civil service pay scales-from $11,200 to $14,000 a year. Last year Congress provided for 400 such jobs in the entire federal service. This year the lid...
Some of us believe that it is a mistake to build peace upon a basis of national rivalries, with the U.S. now encouraging another nation, now "tipping the scales" against it ...
Mr. John moved on to the produce department, became engrossed in testing the hanging-type scales, decided they ought to be replaced with the counter type. Said he: "The others look better and they're not so apt to go out of whack with all that bouncing around."
In its defense against the trustbusters, there was no doubt that A & P had substantial public support. Since A & P had been mightily effective in bringing down the price of food, the average U.S. housewife did not need to look any farther than her pocketbook to know where she stood...
A hit of the show was the portrait of Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner's great Hereford bull, the late Hazford Rupert 81st, which sired $1,000,000 worth of calves. He was, Lea recalled, "a most distinguished, gentlemanly and cordial old bull. He tipped the scales at 1,850...