Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was satisfactory progress-even Panzer divisions cannot cover more than a few hundred miles in a fortnight-but the battle of Russia was on such a vast scale that it still had not been won. It was simply going as well as could be expected...
This was the Eagles' first really large-scale job-though they had had weeks of patrol action.* They did their job really well. Attacked by several Messerschmitts, they shot down three, damaged two others. The youngest of them all, Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, a Montana-born commercial pilot who once flew in South Africa for an ice-cream king, bagged one. At short range he shot away a " 'schmitter's" aileron, and the plane lurched and floated down so awkwardly that Daymond "didn't wait to see what happened because I was quite satisfied...
...Army could make no move outside the hemisphere without Congress' say-so, thus advertising its intention to a foe who moves with lightning speed and without warning. This week's occupation of Iceland was a move the Army could not have joined on anything but pipsqueak scale...
...swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down, in its own scale, is a likable enough performance. But it is scarcely adequate to its subject...
...months of its existence, OPM had become hopelessly complicated, endlessly tied up in red tape that grew around its acts like ragweed in a melon patch. Manufacturers seeking to get started on vital contracts had to fight their way through labyrinths of bureaucracy. For any broad-scale ruling they had to go to the purchasing division, then to production, then to priorities. The rulings had to be reconciled. In the process thousands of hours of vital time were lost in conferences, argument and devitalizing hiatuses while heels and ardor cooled...