Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-year-old Boston research firm headed by a lanky, sharp-chinned, young M.I.T. graduate, Richard Morse. His researchers call themselves "specialists in nothing." They were not the first to work in their rarefied field, for high-vacuum apparatus is an old tool in the laboratory and in small-scale manufacturing. But Morse's National Research Corp. developed machinery which for the first time makes it possible to use a high vacuum in large-scale mass production...
With late liberty secured for supporting members of the rival service schools, Director of Athletics Norman W. Fradd expects large turnouts at this first large-scale attempt to bring the two units closer together in sport-relations...
Demobilization. Three times in his message the President suggested that Europe's war might be over earlier than mid-1945. Said he: "If hostilities end on one major front before they end on other fronts, large-scale demobilization adjustments will be possible and necessary. . . ." But he warned that the budget would not drop as quickly as production. There would still be tremendous sums required for mustering out pay, and contract termination payments...
Britain's bomber chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris, once said that it may take 40,000 tons to kill Berlin. Counting small-scale raids, the city has had about half of that dose. Harris has 20,000 tons...
Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...