Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a good plan, and air support on a greater scale than we have ever had before...
...Urals every major munitions plant owns a Victory garden, whose produce is turned into the community kettle. Many a factory now also pickles its own cucumbers, salts its own cabbage in huge concrete vats. In Leningrad the city council has gone into preserving on a citywide scale...
...were gainfully engaged-in & out of Government-in turning out $98 billions of goods and services. Today there are some 62,000,000 and the gross national product is around $150 billions a year. After the war, even assuming that the Services, Government and large-scale public works can employ as many as 8,000,000 men (and that some 4,000,000 men & women stop working), U.S. private industry, including agriculture, will have to find useful jobs for some 50,000,000 men & women, to avoid "intolerable" unemployment. The postwar breadline...
...General Jesmond Dene Balmer, now Field Artillery School Commandant. Seven months in wartime Washington had taught him that orders are not only to be obeyed but anticipated. Long before the War Department fully realized what time fire could do, Jess Balmer was calling for its use on a huge scale. North Africa proved his point-and led ground forces to multiply orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard. Young officers took them to Guadalcanal and Tunisia, Attu and Sicily. Last month Balmer...
...south. The Yanks found the terrain worse than Tunisia. The parched, brown land tossed in rocky ridges like the arrested waves of a stormy sea. The roads twisted through the valleys and German guns covered them from the slopes. The Yanks' job was to blast those slopes and scale them...