Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia can hardly be said to have opened her heart to the U.S. As when Stalin went secretly about his job of making war preparations on the scale that was able to hold the Nazis before Moscow, so now he takes aid from the U.S. without taking the U.S. into his confidence. The Russians have learned a lot about U.S. weapons and production; the U.S. has seen little of Russian armaments, and nothing of the front...
...Rostock, its raids last, week on Kiel and Trondheim, its repeated daytime raids on Occupied France were not like the raids which the R.A.F. had made intermittently and hit-or-missly for two years. This was the Business. It differed in technique and, above all, it differed in scale from all British bombing that went before. It compared with Hitler's blitz on Britain in the fall of 1940 -only it was bigger...
Within the 400-mile (average) radius of pursuit, Britain is using Hurricanes fitted with bombs to hop nimbly through the Nazi anti-aircraft barrages by daylight and throw confusion and small-scale destruction into industrial and military establishments and their defenses...
...half the doctors under 44 will be in the armed forces. Younger men enter the Army as first lieutenants, those over 37 as captains, those over 44 as majors. Once in the Army, many specialists will have to turn to general medicine. But if U.S. troops get into large-scale battles, many doctors will have to specialize. (During World War I many general practitioners had to become specialists in neurology, plastic surgery, orthopedics...
...made. "I think that the word 'stabilize' has a dynamic rather than a static meaning,"† said he, "I don't think that the President meant by that that wages must be frozen. You could stabilize, or equalize, and still keep wages at the 'existing scale...