Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombing had been aimed primarily at the enemy's air-&-water routes. Now it was aimed at the enemy's supply and operational bases, at the enemy air force, and at the enemy's morale. And the weight of the attacks was increasing on a cumulative scale which multiplied the effects of each mission...
...Bloody Slow. On that night some 200 R.A.F. planes attacked the Renault truck and tank works at Billancourt, near Paris. It was a "saturation raid" of a type soon to become familiar to the Germans in the homeland. What Harris had done was to mass bombers on a scale never at tempted by his predecessors. He was soon to do it on a scale never possible to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain...
...none of the pardonable touchiness with which the Chinese, at times, protest their ability to get along without foreign help after the war, the Roman Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Nanking, last week in Manhattan, outlined a plan of his own for recruiting that help on a grand scale. The plan: to set up employment bureaus in China, to which American teachers, doctors and technicians could apply...
...Europe quickly back on its feet again. International charity must inevitably soon run thin. When the U.S., for one, ceases to give goods away it will suffer from unemployment, despite and because of its vastly expanded productive capacity. Moreover, European and Asiatic collapse will be on a far greater scale than they were when U.S. relief and financial first aid dried up in the early '20s. In sum, the answer may be greater poverty in the midst of a greater potential plenty...
...Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...