Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After President Roosevelt took office, building of warships began on such a scale as the Navy had never before known in peacetime. When Admiral Standley last week marched briskly in upon the House Appropriations Committee he was able to report 54 ships actually under construction, 22 from regular naval appropriations, 32 more from Public Works money-in all 212,000 new tons of fighting machinery or more than twice the tonnage being built by Britain, six times the tonnage being built by Japan. When Admiral Standley walked out of the committee he had won that body's approval...
...included. China, on the other hand, is too small a factor to count. Russia's latest second five year plan will be a large element in this controversy; when it is completed, it will mean that Russia will be a nation capable of carrying on war on a large scale, for self-sufficiency in industrial output is a necessity for any country fighting an extensive campaign...
...paid . . . in states where alcohol control laws do not provide for a county or state store system, but only require a license or some similar system, these fictitious imitations are being sold promiscuously in every sort of establishment." That this continuance of bootlegging on the grand scale can be, to a considerable degree, attributed to the high prices charged by the distiller goes without saying. That the Federal Government will be sufficiently cognizant of its own interests to remedy the situation by forcing the dislitters to lower their charges or by allowing larger importations of foreign liquors...
Senator Black, as chief investigator, sent the Deeds testimony to the Treasury to be checked over for income tax purposes and then turned to another United Aircraft official to hear the same story on a larger scale...
...further increase of the starvation is just around the corner. The comparatively good harvest of the autumn (1933) will alleviate the situation only temporarily. If further mass starvation is to be prevented a large scale relief action must be put into effect...