Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans were heavily fortified in depth, but the sudden release of pent-up Soviet power was overwhelming. German Commentator Ernest von Hammer described "masses of tanks and fighter-bombers on a scale never seen before during the entire Russian campaign." Red sappers advancing toward the Pronya River behind a wall of artillery fire found pulverized German bodies in shredded uniforms, said that they "looked as if they had suffered death several times...
...returned to the executive vice-presidency of Inland Steel Co. Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from the In-box to the Outbox. More & more U.S. businessmen feel that the U.S. is getting very close to the shift toward large-scale civilian production. And many a corporation had warned its lend-leased talent: come on back or stay away for good...
Smart Operator. Proprietor Billy Wilkerson is a suave, natty Tennesseean with drooping lips and a dark mustache. At 49, he is still as toughly handsome as a Central Casting Corporation gambler. On the Hollywood scale of business he is a midget; yet even in that hyperbolic community, he is regarded with respect. He is the editor-publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, in whose columns it pays, as all Hollywood is aware, to advertise. He promoted and operated the prodigiously successful Trocadero, a nightspot which took in $3,800,000 in two years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime...
...Nazis' reaction was small-scale and local, but swift and bitter. Infantry and tanks of the 77th, ordered to withdraw-when it was too late, tried to fight their way through the 9th's roadblock. The U.S. commander honored them with a "serenade": every gun within range opened up at maximum rate of fire. The carnage chilled even the victors' marrow. But the enemy's attempted sortie failed...
Drama at Harvard will continue throughout this summer, it was announced last night by officials of The Harvard Dramatic Club. Plans for this summer, though incomplete, call for a full scale production, perhaps with the Radcliffe Idler...