Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives of wounded men -only 1.5% exclusive of battle deaths, die of their wounds. Last fortnight Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, Navy's Surgeon General, told Northwestern University's medical and dental students about the U.S. record on Guadalcanal. It is even better, though on a smaller scale: less than 1% have died, compared to 7% in World War I. Biggest improvement is in abdominal wounds-5% deaths, compared to World...
...were spared that disaster, which might have knocked us out of the war before we had even started, we suffered defeat after defeat, retreat after retreat. Hong-Kong was the first to fall; them the Philippines and the "impregnable" stronghold of Singapore, and with it the only large-scale naval base in the Far East. The loss of the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and parts of the Russian Caucasus deprived our armed forces of badly needed oil, rubber, and metals...
...September 1941 Business Manager Howard Stodghill of the Philadelphia Bulletin got his newspaper boys to peddle 10? war savings stamps to householders. When sales zoomed, the Treasury summoned Stodghill to Washington to organize carrier sales on a nationwide scale...
...Westinghouse laboratories have been using small-scale models to demonstrate that lightning can be grounded by a new type of anti-lightning device. The device is a "clothesline" of steel wire strung between two poles. Its importance is that inflammable buildings, like munitions plants, arsenals or oil depots, can now be protected with 60 lb. of steel wire instead of 250 lb. of lightning rods made of critical copper...
...Seven Days' Battle, 1862. Here Robert E. Lee, with inferior forces, outmaneuvered McClellan and saved Richmond, the loss of which would have changed the whole course of the Civil War. Lee's casualties were on a Stalingrad scale...