Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potent new fire-resistant chemical has been invented at the Mallinckrodt Laboratories, Harvard University announced yesterday. The chemical will be of tremendous importance to our fighting forces and the government is considering large-scale purchases, according to the latest reports...
...taken 76 of the largest boats and more are sure to go. There is practically no fishing on George's Bank (200 miles out of Boston) or Sable Island Bank (500 miles out), for centuries the nearest and best East Coast fishing grounds. Thus Boston's long, scale-paved Fish Pier took in only 114,664,000 lb. in the first six months of this year v. 153,838,000 lb. a year ago. The June catch was only two-thirds...
...only four other soldiers-and Stalin-rank with him or above him in the Red Army scale. Between the cap of an officer and the starred, medaled tunic of a Marshal, his face is still a peasant's face. It is heavy, broad and brooding, cruel and kind, the face of Soviet Russia and the Red Army. In his face, in the whole person and history of Timoshenko, are the qualities by which Soviet Russia must now live...
...training his combat crews and starting tactical cooperation with the R.A.F., General Spaatz could leave details to his bomber commander, husky, seasoned, 46-year-old Major General Ira Eaker and to his fighter commander, whose name has not yet been announced. Real U.S. participation in big-scale bombing would have to wait until their organization work was completed and plenty of equipment was on hand...
...test (called the Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale) is the stock in trade of Dr. Humm and his partner, Guy W. Wadsworth Jr., a vice president of Southern California Gas Co. They launched their personnel service after they had examined 350 unsatisfactory employes and found that 80% failed not for lack of skill but because of misfit temperaments...