Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign-in his own private efforts to elect candidates who look good to C.I.O. As a founder of New York's American Labor Party, which delivered 300,000 votes to Roosevelt in 1936 and 417,000 in 1940, he knows the business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O.'s 5,285,000 members, he can try to harvest votes from A.F. of L.'s 6,100,000, the Railway Brotherhoods' 350,000, the uncounted thousands of sympathetic farmers, white-collar workers and little businessmen...
...Eighth Air Force, badly stung by losses to German rocket-bearing planes, tried new tactics which worked well. Planes were accompanied to their targets by long-range fighters, and mass attacks were meshed with large-scale feints and supplementary bombings. Subsequent bomber losses on three big successive daylight raids...
...these figures proved nothing else, they did indicate the terrific scale of the fighting and the losses on both sides. When the people of Moscow went into the streets on Nov. 7 to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the revolution, their hearts were glad with victory. But they were also heavy with sorrow. For few Russian families had not sacrificed lives to keep their country free...
...Force in the Mediterranean, it would take some time to mount raids on a grand scale from Italy...
...ship's metal. In salt sea water, which is an excellent electrolytic bath, the metal is swiftly eaten away. Durham had no idea where the metal went, but he hit on a simple way to stop it: suspending in the water another metal higher in the electrolytic scale. Thus, when he installed a piece of zinc, electrically wired to the ship, near a bronze propeller, the propeller picked up zinc deposits instead of losing bronze...