Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office, said the committee, had spent too much time laying down broad policy, "is not accessible to a man with a problem." It also gave the back of its hand to the Army: "The Army is continuing to utilize its manpower wastefully. In addition it is setting up huge reserves of troops which it cannot hope to employ in the Pacific war except in the event of an almost disastrous military setback. . . . The Army should give serious consideration to making available to industry now the relatively few men whose efforts would make possible the employment of great numbers...
Ineseapable differences among students, the Report continues, "have brought about a huge increase in the number and kind of subjects taught in high school...
...soldiers arrived in New York on seven ships from Europe; the huge Queen Elizabeth brought an entire division. In France, at shove-off camps named for U.S. cigaret brands, more thousands of men got their sailing papers, clambered aboard ships. By this week 532,258 shouting, cheering G.I.s had arrived back home in the States...
...they also proposed to avoid the pitfalls of World War I reparations policy: the demands for huge payments in finished goods, the building up of German industry to supply the goods, and a flood of foreign loans to finance the whole thing. In the end, Germany got more out of it than the victors...
...Architect Wright's description-a "steel basket shot with concrete"-the outer covering of the building will be winding bands of seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...