Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After five weeks on the throne, King Gustaf VI of Sweden asked his parliament for a raise of $38,000 to bring his annual allowance up to $231,000, a middle bracket in the modern monarchical wage scale...
...Jersey, a county commander of the Catholic War Veterans boasted that he had been able to persuade two theaters to cancel bookings of the Charlie Chaplin classic, City Lights. He was trying to promote similar pressure by the veterans' organization on a national scale. The reason, he explained, is that the real-life Chaplin "appears guilty" of "Communistic leanings...
...answer to arguments President Charles C. Cole of Amherst stated against U.M.S. in a magazine article last week. Conant made two points: 3 first, that there need not be a full-scale hiatus for the nation's schools when Universal Service is first put into effect. "This can be adjusted," Conant said, pointing out the temporary deferments system that the A.A.U. program would install, and that the army would always be discharging a good number...
Three Martinis. Something similar, though on a smaller scale, was happening simultaneously to a score of other French authors. The Prix Femina had gone to Serge Groussard for his La femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interalli...
Some businessmen questioned whether the loan should have been made at all. Said the Wall Street Journal: "Why should our government . . . maintain output of civilian goods at the very moment it is attempting a large-scale conversion of industrial production to warmaking equipment?" The answer seemed to be that RFC wanted to keep K-F going in the hope that it could get some arms contracts...