Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough-&-ready Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton had fidgeted for weeks waiting for the moment to arrive. Seventeen times since his small-scale assists on D-day he had drawn up the detail of tactics for a historic stroke: the parachuting of an Allied army, a force of truly army size, capable of fighting on its own, behind the German lines. Seventeen times he had scrapped the plans: the Allied ground forces had advanced so swiftly that his First Allied Airborne Army was not needed...
...neglected child next door. Both get into bad company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have ugly moments with their parents and at a drinking joint, and in an attempt at larceny, both are redeemed through a mellow juvenile-court judge and through kinfolk who, on a modest scale, set up every delinquency-preventive, from a kindergarten to machinist's training...
Said Barney Giles: "Our detailed plans cannot of course be disclosed but . . . are carefully laid to bring down on Japan the full weight of air power on a scale beyond anything they have imagined." The one limiting factor: land bases in the Pacific to accommodate the A.A.F.'s abundance of planes...
...scholarly Oriental placed great emphasis on China's gigantic reconstruction job in the post-war years, and saw as one phase of the solution the large-scale immigration of Chinese farmers into regained Manchurlan land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...
...brilliant, complex, minutely detailed analysis of the coming operation. Said Crerar: "Tomorrow . . . may be another historic day in the military annals of Canada." The newsmen agreed that his briefing was an extraordinary performance. "That man," said one, "has a department store mind on a Napoleonic scale...