Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effective harmony in carrying out large-scale operations. A rollicking, better-than-average graduate of the outstanding West Point class of 1915, Ike was speedily marked down as an expert training officer, a fact which cost him his chance for combat duty in World War I. When Eisenhower, years later, suddenly emerged into national prominence, there was some tendency among civilians to regard him as a dashing unknown who had popped up with a brilliant staff performance on army maneuvers. It was not that simple. Through the peacetime interlude Eisenhower had worked hard at home and abroad-most notably...
Although his duty is essentially an executive job on a giant scale, General Ike spent about a third of his time in England out with the men who are now battling the enemy across the Channel. In London he turned down all social engagements. His chief recreation, in the days when he still had occasional free evenings, was a session of bridge, at which he is ruthlessly expert...
Sergeant McKeogh has been with the general since Eisenhower picked him as a driver at the 1941 maneuvers. Commander Butcher's role has puzzled many civilians, although veteran officers understand it well. As a general moves up in the military scale, he becomes surrounded with a loneliness not unlike that which enfolds the master of a ship...
...contractor in both Washington, D.C. and the Denver area. But he lives simply, keeps business dealings direct: it took him 20 minutes to settle all his last year's Government renegotiation problems. "He gets his labor in the vicinity of the job, always hires union men, pays the union scale without a yammer. Real secret of Nate's success: no job is too big, none too small...
...University as an instructor in Physical Education in 1919, after having served as director of the physical reconditioning program at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. His new duties will be similar to those he performed during the last war, except that they will be on a much larger scale; he will have supervision over the rehabilitation of wounded veterans in the entire area of New England...