Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the probability of large-scale scholarship demands loomed yesterday, when the office of the Committee on Scholarships said that over since the recent announcement of rent boosts, an unprecedently large number of students have drawn application blanks...
Their demand was superfluous. There had never been any doubt about voting some large-scale aid to Europe. Last week, after seven months of planning, seven weeks of committee hearings, eleven days of grueling debate, passage in the Senate was already assured. The climax had come at exactly 5:05 p.m. the day before, when Ohio's Senator Robert Taft planted his feet squarely behind his Senate desk, thrust both thumbs into his pants pockets, and launched into a 90-minute attack on ERP's most vulnerable point: its size...
...Marshall Plan were solely a matter of dollars-&-cents investment for fair return, we would do well to scrap it now. On its present scale and design Marshall aid cannot ensure the permanent rehabilitation of Europe. It is too little, and it is probably too late, to do more than slow the economic decline which brought it into being...
Holt said he believed that the waiters were "misinformed" about the value of a change in the wage scale, but declared that he would be happy to discuss the matter with the group, and make any changes he felt wise...
Among the tapestries were some of the oldest in existence: 14th Century illustrations of the Apocalypse which reproduced, on a huge scale, the red and blue glow of medieval illuminations. They had originally been woven to keep out drafts in the castle at Angers...