Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since D-day in Normandy, 13 months ago, U.S. foot soldiers were engaged in no large-scale operations anywhere in the world. But last week the ground force commanders-and the admirals who put them ashore-left no doubt that such idleness would be shortlived. The Tenth Army's "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell told his troops he hoped they would be home by next Independence Day. Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet was for keeping up the pressure, "so Japan can't get back on balance...
Teele emphasized, in an exclusive interview with the SERVICE NEWS, that the precise details of his program are no more complete than are his offices which are now being built in Weld Hall. He said that the problem of student placement was of fairly large scale and was tied up with the whole problem of education...
...Army Air Forces and, on a larger scale, the Surplus Property Board, have offered to send obsolete and excess equipment to any non-profit school that will pay the transportation costs. So far enthusiastic school heads have asked for almost $20,000,000 worth...
...raised last week by the National Industrial Conference Board. It took OPA to task for trying to fix prices of civilian products at 1942 levels, or only a shade over them. This price policy, said the Board, may do exactly what OPA does not want. It may hamstring big-scale production of the civilian goods which would relieve the present pressure on prices...
...pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. Sixty religious and educational leaders (including Professor Walter Russell Bowie of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Professor Henry J. Cadbury of the Harvard Divinity School and Professor Rufus M. Jones of Quaker Haverford College) signed a statement describing U.S. raids on Japan as "large-scale massacre ... of defenseless women and children . . . [which] cannot be so 'effective' in military terms as to justify itself in terms of humanity and the future peace of the world. . . . The Japanese are not all entirely evil...