Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reconquest When? The renewed Battle of Burma was still only small-scale attrition; probably not more than 4,000 Japs were engaged. Neither side was heady with success and both were beginning to feel the supply pinch...
...provide trained brains for a technician's war, the A.S.T.P. was halted by the superior necessities of full-scale operations. Inevitable casualties demanded immediate replacements. Selective Service had failed by 200,000 to meet the Army's expected total of 7,700,000 by last year's end. Rejections among the 18-and ig-year-olds ran to an amazing 25%−mostly for psychiatric reasons.*And the Army had another reason: fighting men in the field were not pleased at the thought of able-bodied brothers-inarms softly berthed in campus foxholes...
Navy and Marine Corps college programs, never on such a big scale, are not being curtailed, but sometimes speeded up. Many men who have seen active service with the fleet have been returned to school for further training during their advancement. Navy needs for officer material are still growing. Each ,of the 45,000 landing craft building this year, for example, requires at least one officer...
...performed well in the Southwest Pacific, better still in Africa. But it required large-scale operation in the vast operation from England to take the last tarnish off "The Flying Prostitute...
...that the much simpler alcohol process ran into fewer production kinks than those which knotted up petroleum butadiene production, split as it is among 13 companies, tinkering with five different processes. What worked like a dream in the laboratory is turning out to have some nightmarish bursts in big-scale production. Best example: the Houdry Process, widely publicized a year and a half ago, has yet to get into satisfactory production in Sun Oil's plant at Toledo and the plant of Standard Oil of California at El Segundo, Calif...