Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first planned to build a series of impounding reservoirs in the hills around Johnstown. But when Army engineers tested this scheme on a scale model, it did not work. Eventually they chose to drain the valley. They widened and deepened the channels of Stony Creek, the Conemaugh and the Little Conemaugh, straightened curves, built concrete banks up to 67 ft. high. They spent $8,670,000 all told. Result: swift-flowing, unobstructed channels that are calculated to carry off any floods that may funnel into the valley...
...days later a slightly smaller attacking force slugged its way in through a thinning overcast and plastered the key Erkner ball-bearing works at Berlin. The air combat was still large scale: 38 bombers and 15 fighters were lost, 125 Nazi planes shot down...
...hard fact remained. Full-scale air attack, of an intensity truly calculated to cripple Germany, has been mounted only within the last two weeks. Many hard blows must still be struck...
Winged Victory. Moss Hart's large-scale, warmhearted tribute to the Air Forces (TIME...
Limited-service draftees now account for only 5% of the present monthly quota of some 250,000 men (last year: 20%). Reason: the army has nearly as many partially fit men as it can use. Now that full-scale warfare is about to begin, the Army needs men who can fight...