Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right question. Wherever it was, a navy as big as the U.S. Navy had not been suddenly whisked from the face of the seas. The question meant: Where is the attacking power of the U.S.? The answer was that it was being built-by work on a scale big enough to make up all its losses, in an industry big enough to rebuild it entirely if that should ever be necessary, and by the people who were building it even while they asked the question...
...same job in France as this one in Asia-he carried the entire responsibility for the details of withdrawal. With scarcely any sleep at all, he moved G.H.Q. eight times in 20 days, took the worst news without blinking, seldom referred to maps because he carried a large-scale one around in his head...
...Many disappointments and unpleasant surprises await us. ... [But] I think it would be reasonable to hope that the end of 1942 will see us quite definitely in a better position than we are now. And that the year 1943 will enable us to assume the initiative upon an ample scale...
...Davao, on the south shore of Mindanao, Lieut. Colonel Roger Hilsman and his small force still fought the invader. But it was a losing fight, a small-scale replica of the great battle of Luzon. Unless help should come, all the Philippines' defenders could hope for was the bitter, bloody price of a last-ditch fight. It would not be in vain. As long as the Philippines held out, the Jap could not exert his full force on the vital fortress of Singapore...
...this, $35,000,000 is for a plane unique in U.S. aviation history-the all-plywood bomber trainer AT-10. The AT-10 uses very little scarce aluminum or steel and can be turned out much faster than metal craft. Almost ready for full-scale production, Beech has subcontracted 30-40% of his plywood ship to companies like American Seating Co. (school and theater seats), Reed Roller Bit Co. (oil-well drills), Kansas City woodworking outfits...