Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive against Germany and Axis Europe is suffering from understatement. The objective is not merely to destroy cities, industries, human beings and the human spirit on a scale never before attempted by air action. The objective is to defeat Hitler with bombs...
...offensive against Germany was in full swing (see col. 3). On the effectiveness of this campaign a major Allied hope was based. Said he: "It is our settled policy . . . to make it impossible for Germany to carry on any form of war industry on a large or concentrated scale, either in Germany, in Italy or in the enemy-occupied countries. Wherever these centers exist or are developed, they will be destroyed and the munitions populations will be dispersed. . . . And this process will continue ceaselessly with ever-increasing weight and intensity until the German and Italian peoples abandon or destroy...
...today a reality is due to the fact that other men were toiling on rubber long before the Baruch report made U.S. motorists realize the rubber crisis. The experts compressed ten years of normal development into two, created gigantic, intricate plants with almost nothing to go on except small-scale laboratory experiments. This was almost like building a Flying Fortress out of the experience of flying a kite...
...tangled jungle across the saw-toothed range on the Indian frontier came a ragged band of men who for three months had fought the Japs on their own terms and come back alive. Led by small, unorthodox Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate,* they had shown on a small scale that the ordinary British and Indian soldier can learn jungle fighting...
Vladimir Horowitz owes his enormous following to the most amazingly fleet, powerful and accurate fingers in the pianistic world. He can trill with the relentless evenness of a mechanical drill. He can rip off a scale of octaves with a glittering finish that few of his contemporaries can even approach. His performances invariably crackle with electric virtuosity...