Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame? United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis and Northern operators had agreed on a new wage scale: $7 a day (up from $6). This caused neither of them any pain, for the union got a pay rise and it cost the Northern operators nothing, since under the Guffey Coal Act their increased labor cost would be passed along to the public as part of the Government-fixed price of coal...
...transports and the attack forces (secret in arms and organization) loaded on the speedy ex-destroyers. One sunset the whole fleet sailed over the horizon. At dawn it was seizing a beach head on another Caribbean island. The First was gone a month on its full-scale exercise. Units of the Atlantic Fleet worked with them. Admiral Ernest Joseph King looked his approval as the landing parties were called away and the bronzed, hornyhanded sea soldiers went over the side into armored small boats. By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their...
...also busy with another plane, the Tornado, powered by a 2,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce (the Vulture). Better bet of the two seemed to be the Napier, and last week British representatives in Washington were reputed to be urging OPM to get busy and manufacture Sabres on a big scale. Luckily for the U.S. Army Air Corps, one of its top-flight airmen has seen the Typhoon perform, has had a good look at its engine. British newsmen reported that Major General Henry H. Arnold seemed more impressed by it than by anything else he had seen in Britain...
Last week, for three days, a small force of Australians, New Zealanders and Britons dug themselves in on the heights above the pass's little mill and aqueduct, near its hot springs, and poured down fire so that the Germans could neither scale the heights nor move along the narrow strip of shore. One of the earliest fifth columnists, a Greek from Malis, betrayed the Spartans by leading the Persians through a mountain path around to the rear of the Greeks. Last week the Germans finally took Thermopylae by the same operation, but, like the pass, on a much...
...weeks, however have tended to even the balance of choice. Many interventionists now state publicly that German defeat will require from three to eight years more of war and the sending by us of a huge expeditionary force to invade Europe or Africa. Obviously total war on a world scale for such a length of time is quite as likely to end in a stalemate of exhaustion or anarchy...