Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombers, the threat to vital British shipping could be practically eliminated. Britons are enthusiastic over U.S. patrol and heavy bombers, find U.S. pursuit planes inferior to their own, which fly higher, can get on top the enemy. But U.S. planes are now being tested in action on a big scale in Syria...
Fact of the matter was that the dispute had grown progressively worse with mishandling. Month ago, OPM officials thought they had ended disputes in Pacific shipbuilding when they got shipyards and A.F. of L. international officers and metal-trades councils: 1) to agree to a standard wage scale, 2) to outlaw strikes and lockouts for two years. Bethlehem Steel, which operates the largest two yards in the area, although it put the terms of the agreement into effect, declined to sign. So did A.F. of L. machinists, who denied the right of their international officers to sign for them...
...storm had been more than a hiatus in the men's activities. Before it the British had prepared and begun a large-scale raid on the Germans who held Salûm and Halfáya ("Hellfire") Pass, just east of the Egyptian-Libyan border. The storm broke up the raid, disorganized the British, and gave the Germans time to devise and organize a vast counter-raid...
Called "Out to Shake the World," that article, written by the Post's chief editorialist, Caret Garrett, went into a paean over "an armament program on a scale never hitherto conceived . . . not for ourselves alone but for the British Empire, for the Chinese, for any country now or hereafter that will fight the aggressor until he is dead...
...famed Frederick W. ("Speedy") Taylor. Cooke thinks that the defense effort should extend even to the home, points to the British "bits and pieces" system which spread aircraft production to 6,500 small shops. But neither Cooke's writings nor the Treckers' barnstorming have yet produced large-scale results. Trecker himself estimates that more than 45% of the nation's defense capacity is still idle...