Word: scale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sells U.S. surplus agricultural products for local currencies, then lends back the payments for development. The Export-Import Bank makes loans exclusively for the purchase of U.S. equipment and commodities. The International Co operation Administration dispenses grant aid and technical assistance. The International Finance Corporation operates on a small scale as an affiliate of the World Bank and the IMF to invest in private enterprise...
...collision between Cal (with its seven campuses) and the 15 state colleges, which are also state-supported but owe no allegiance to Cal. State colleges used to concentrate on teacher training, but California's exploding technology has given them a whole new direction-vocational training on an enormous scale. They now teach, besides teaching itself, everything from judo and fly-tying to aeronautics, electronics, semantics, penology and oenology (wine growing...
Although he is one of the world's wealthiest men, eccentric, elusive Howard Hughes is often short of cash-usually on a grand scale. For the last six months he has been short just $340 million, the money needed to pay for jet planes ordered for his TWA. Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA stock, would have had little trouble raising the money if he had been willing to relinquish his whimful one-man control of the airline. Long accustomed to dictating his own terms, Hughes refused. Wary bankers were equally stubborn. Last week, with time running...
...site was at the limit of the commercial development on residential Brattle Street. The building was very large in area and intrinsically of great bulk--bigger than anything else around it. The problem was how to make it a good neighbor, how to make it in scale and, at the same time, fulfil its purposes...
...many angels could dance on the head of a pin. The National Bureau of Standards does not allow itself to measure angels-but it has developed a micromicrocamera that can put a page of the Bible on a bit of photographic film much smaller than a pinhead. On this scale all the pages of a Bible would barely cover Lincoln's head on a if piece; the 27,357 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica could be reproduced on the back of a matchbook...