Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the scales still teetered while both sides waited to see how Colorado's all-time greatest vote getter, Democratic Senator Ed Johnson, would turn. No friend of Carroll's and usually more inclined toward Gene Millikin's conservatism, Johnson had kept his own counsel. Republican leaders...
Commerce Department figures still showed that the U.S. had a slim balance of exports over imports. In July, said Commerce, the U.S.'s favorable balance of trade tipped the scales at a mere $63 million, the lowest level in nine years. Actually, if such unpaid-for exports as Marshall...
Only lack of air power might tip the scales against the South. The Communists' North Korean air force has been estimated to have anywhere from 50 to 200 planes. The smaller figure is probably more nearly correct. The planes include Russian Yak fighters and light bombers. South Korea has...
In 1905 he got a job as clerk of the scales at New Orleans' City Park. Later he worked as judge, steward, entry clerk, bookkeeper, and finally handicapper at tracks from Agua Caliente to Winnipeg, in 1935 was picked as racing secretary for the New York tracks.
The commission's recommendations : boost the grade-school teacher's pay, give him job tenure, set up more attractive retirement plans, and establish the same salary scales for elementary-and high-school teachers. One likely result: some of the growing surplus of trained high-school teachers (50,000...