Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large-scale Chinese success would ease the future tremendously. The Chinese officers of the line think they could achieve that success, if only they had some artillery, and some scouting planes to go with it. They think they have learned a few things about how to fight a 20th-century war. But they are still forced to fight an 18th-Century war without even having the 18th-Century weapon, artillery...
...swing this large-scale currency-stabilization plan, the U.S. pledged $50,000,000, the United Kingdom $20,000,000, China $20,000,000. In the U.S. $90,000,000 sometimes looks like chicken feed...
...cable of thanks to relief officials last week, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek said Chinese morale had been notably boosted by "the unprecedented scale of the present American . . . assistance to China." The American Friends Service Committee said it was sending an ambulance corps of 50 U.S., British and Canadian citizens, ten ambulances to China for duty on the Burma Road...
...returns are good, the hat may be passed on a nationwide scale this summer. How much aluminum scrap there is in U.S. pantries and basements, no one knows. But 0PM calculates that if each U.S. family gives up one pound, it can scrape together 30,000,000 lb.-better than a fortnight's production...
...short roly-poly of 42, resembling nothing so much as an amiable Alexander Woollcott on a smaller scale, he is a dutiful husband,* an ardent dog-lover, an amiable drinker, and loved by his friends. Despite Latin-American fondness for the sanguine (bullfights, the annually-produced slaughter melodrama Don Juan Tenorio, the "Day of the Dead," etc.), Cooper will not in his new job employ his weird Lights Out talent...