Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Housing. Home-building is under way on a limited scale only where manpower and materials can be spared; in the next twelve months, at least 250,000 homes and apartments are expected to be built; essential repairs can be made...
...Britons and Americans. "Once and for all," cried the London News Chronicle, "Hermann G&246ring is an evil, cruel murderer." In the U.S., the usually mild Christian Science Monitor thundered: "Here is no captive entitled to the usual military courtesies. This man has murdered and plundered on an international scale." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman D. J. Flood: "This schweehturnie...
Americans also paid heavily in blood and sacrifice, but not on a scale comparable to the other two. Unlike the other peoples, Americans were not invaded or directly threatened by the Nazis, but-slowly, haltingly, after argument and contention-they overcame their old belief in isolation and acknowledged that the Nazi attack on civilization was as much their war as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Having made this decision, difficult for them, Americans not only made their contribution in blood and military skill to the defeat of Naziism, they also provided the greatest part of the machinery which overmatched...
...promised that when the time came for big-scale reconversion, all of industry would get off to an equal start. Last week it followed up these comforting words with comforting action. It set aside top priorities for some $102,000,000 in machine tools and new construction for all of the 72 major industries which had converted their facilities to war work...
...took toward reconverting U.S. industry. Without wait ing for a formal announcement, WPB quietly put into effect its own plans for V-E day. As fast as it could, WPB began to lift the system of controls from indus try and turn loose manpower and materi als for big-scale civilian manufacture...