Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of what happened at Messina was its scale. Probably the biggest lesson of Tunisia was a very simple one: given planes which are not too violently different in quality, the side with the numbers wins. We did not start winning until we achieved numerical superiority in the air, but when we did we almost could not lose...
Berlin propagandists suggested that even this modest design has withered. Now, they said, the Wehrmacht has adopted a solely defensive strategy in Russia, (which might include local, limited offensives, but no large-scale blow at the Red Army). They also indicated that the Allied menace in the south influenced this decision...
...Wehrmacht's advance to disaster in the Caucasus and at Stalingrad. Between the end of March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted a major action, and this attempt had failed...
...Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee met with WPB's printing and publishing division to see what could be done. Their recommendations: 1) that papers be allowed, with regional exceptions, to keep on hand only a 50-day paper supply (heretofore 75 days); 2) that a new, sliding scale of reductions, based on circulation (the biggest papers taking an additional 5% cut), be imposed. Its aim: to really effect, for the year, the 10% cut ordered six months...
Nearly every Congressman, at least once in his life, is suddenly struck with a grand-scale idea about money as the root of all evil. Forthwith he takes pen in hand and writes either a book or a bill...