Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Agriculture had begun to experiment with DDT, got such sensational results that the Surgeon General's office and Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD launched a full-scale investigation, soon uncovered DDT's immense military possibilities...
North to the Baltic. The ground, which had dried out two months ago in the south, was now fit for large-scale operations all the way to the Baltic. In the south, Marshal Konev's armies had a fully coiled spring aimed toward the Galati gap which leads on to the Rumanian plain, to Bucharest and the oil of Ploesti...
Watching the businesslike French Colonials fearlessly scale a steep hill in the face of heavy German machine-gun fire, a U.S. artillery major said: "God! If everybody had the heart to fight the way these Frenchmen...
...boasted: "During the last two years Japan has brought her fighting strength to such a level that she is now ready to make use of the earliest opportunity to deal the enemy troops a decisive blow and frustrate all enemy efforts." Tokyo commentators added: "The day for a large-scale Japanese campaign is drawing close." As Tojo well knew, he was talking through his hat: he had about as much chance of deciding when the big events would come as Hitler had of deciding D-day in western Europe. He could only guess where the next big blow would fall...
Allied airmen were rounding out their first month of full-scale preparation for invasion, and the month's work had been expensive. From British bases alone the U.S. had lost some 300 heavy bombers-each with ten highly trained men aboard. The R.A.F. had lost nearly as many...